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, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, 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 in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

To visit

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him 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 bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, 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 Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

To keep

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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

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

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

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth 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 born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh 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.