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 from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.

ALEPH. Blessed are the perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah.

Blessed the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

To visit

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

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 which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

To keep

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

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

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

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.

General references

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to borrow of thee turn not away.