James 4:16-17 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

¹⁶As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁷Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

— James 4:16-17

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