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

1 Timothy 5:4

To visit

To keep

General references

Matthew 5:42

Bible References

Pure

But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

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

who was a descendant of Aaron. They were both righteous in the sight of the Lord, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the law, blameless.

Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

To visit

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

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

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

To keep

You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

I have given them thy word; and the world has 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 transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated 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 whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

General references

"Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.