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 from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

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.

But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,

But if any widow has children or relatives, let them learn first to support their family and to make returns to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

To visit

Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how continues the love of God in him?

To keep

Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.

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

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God;

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

General references

Give to him that asks, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.