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, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!

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

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

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

To visit

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

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

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

To keep

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which 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 Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

General references

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.