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, is - first pure, then peaceable, reasonable, easy to be entreated, fraught with mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

[ALEPH] How happy the men of blameless life, who walk in the law of Yahweh.

Happy, the pure, in heart; for, they, shall, see God:

Now they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and righteous appointments of the Lord, blameless;

Now, the end of the charge, is love - out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned, -

Howbeit, if, any widow, hath, children or grandchildren, let them be learning - first, unto their own house, to be shewing reverence, and, returns, to be making unto their progenitors; for, this, is acceptable before God;

To visit

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?

The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes, - Cease to do evil.

Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose - To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke, - and To let the crushed go free, and That every yoke, ye tear off?

Then, will the king say to those on his right hand: Come ye, the 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, through love, energising.

And, in doing that which is honourable, let us not be fainthearted; for, in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.

But, whoso hath this world's goods, and beholdeth his brother having, need, and shutteth up his tender affections from him, how, is, the love of God, abiding in him?

To keep

Adulteresses! Know ye not that, the friendship of the world, is, enmity to God? Whosoever, therefore, is minded to be, a friend, of the world, an enemy of God, doth constitute himself.

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 configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God - the good and acceptable and perfect.

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, -

With me, however, far be it! to be boasting, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, - whereby, unto me, a world hath been crucified, and, I, unto a world;

If, therefore, ye have been raised together with the Christ, the things on high, be seeking, where, the Christ, is - on the right hand of God, sitting;

Be not loving the world, nor yet the things that are in the world: if anyone be loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Because, whatsoever hath been born of God, overcometh the world; and, this, is the victory that hath overcome the world - our faith.

General references

Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:

To him who is asking thee, give; and, him who is desiring from thee to borrow, do not thou turn away.