James 1:27
A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Isaiah 1:16-17
"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.
1 John 2:15-17
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
Psalm 119:1
How blessed are those whose life is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD!
Matthew 5:8
"How blessed are those who are pure in heart, because it is they who will see God!
Matthew 25:34-46
"Then the king will say to those on his right, "Come, you who have been blessed by my Father! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,
Luke 1:6
Both of them were righteous before God, having lived blamelessly according to all of the commandments and regulations of the Lord.
Galatians 6:9-10
Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Colossians 3:1-3
Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.
James 3:17
However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
1 John 3:17-19
Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?
1 John 5:4-5
because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world.
1 John 5:18
We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.
Job 31:15-20
The one who made me in the womb made them, too, didn't he? Didn't the same one prepare each of us in the womb?"
Psalm 68:5
A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
1 Timothy 1:5
The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.
Job 29:12-13
because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them.
Isaiah 58:6-7
Isn't this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
John 17:14-15
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
Galatians 1:4
He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.
Galatians 5:6
for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.
Galatians 6:14
But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!