James 1:27

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James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Isaiah 1:16-17

“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.
Remove your evil deeds from My sight.
Stop doing evil.

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

James 4:4

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

Psalm 119:1

א AlefHow happy are those whose way is blameless,
who live according to the Lord’s instruction!

Matthew 5:8

The pure in heart are blessed,
for they will see God.

Matthew 25:34-46

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 1:6

Both were righteous in God’s sight, living without blame according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.

Galatians 6:9-10

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

Colossians 3:1-3

So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

1 John 3:17-19

If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?

1 John 5:4-5

because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the One who is born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Job 31:15-20

Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?
Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

Psalm 68:5

God in His holy dwelling is
a father of the fatherless
and a champion of widows.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels,
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

Job 29:12-13

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Isaiah 58:6-7

Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?

John 17:14-15

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

Galatians 6:14

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

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Summary

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Pure

To visit

To keep

General references

Exodus 22:22

Matthew 5:42

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