James 1:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

1 Timothy 5:4

To visit

To keep

General references

Matthew 5:42

Bible References

Pure

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.

(Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned:

But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.

To visit

Then the King will say to those on his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

Let us not become weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?

To keep

Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friend ship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

But may I never boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God;

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For whatever is begotten of God, overcomes the world; and this is the victorious principle that overcomes the world, even our faith.

General references

Give to him that asks of you; and from him that would borrow of you, turn not away.