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 entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.

{Aleph} Blessed are those that be undefiled in the way, and walk in the law of the LORD.

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

Both were perfect before God, and walked in all the laws and ordinances of the Lord, that no man could find fault with them.

For the end of the commandment is love that cometh of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

To visit

"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.

He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies?

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.

Or is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, and to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes?

Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed children of my father, inherit ye the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world.

For in Jesus Christ, neither is circumcision anything worth, neither yet uncircumcision: but faith, which by love is mighty in operation.

Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.

He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him?

To keep

Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

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

And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

which gave himself for our sins, to deliver us from this present evil world, through the will of God our father,

God forbid that I should rejoice but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified as touching me, and I as concerning the world.

If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand of God.

See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.

For all that is born of God, overcometh the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

General references

Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

Give to him that asketh, and from him that would borrow, turn not away.