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 peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,

Blessed [are those whose] way is blameless, who walk in the law of Yahweh.

Blessed [are] the pure in heart, because they will see God.

And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

To visit

because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.

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

A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.

Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!

Is this not [the] fast I choose: to release [the] bonds of injustice, to untie [the] ropes of [the] yoke, and to let [the] oppressed go free, and {tear} every yoke to pieces?

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 counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?

To keep

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants 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.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

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

But [as] for me, may it never be [that I] boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things 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,

because everyone who is fathered by God conquers the world.

General references

" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.