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 that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits,

Happy 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.

Whereas the end of the commandment is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,

and to requite their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.

To visit

Then shall the king say to 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 Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

But let us not be weary of 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 adultresses, know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whosoever therefore desireth to be a friend of the world, is an 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.

(that he might deliver us from the 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 which the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.

If ye then are risen with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sitteth at the right-hand of God.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world: if any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

General references

Give to him that asketh thee, and him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.