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

To visit

To keep

General references

Exodus 22:22

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 variance, without hypocrisy.

ALEPH. Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah.

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

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

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

To visit

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

To keep

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

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

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

General references

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.