Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Pure and undefiled religion
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Pure and undefiled religion before our
International Standard Version
A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
A Conservative Version
Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
American Standard Version
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Amplified
Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.
An Understandable Version
Religion that is pure and uncorrupted in the eyes of [our] God and Father involves taking care of orphans and widows in their distress and keeping oneself unstained by the world.
Anderson New Testament
Religion, pure 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.
Bible in Basic English
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
Common New Testament
Religion that is pure and undefiled in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Daniel Mace New Testament
pure and unadulterated religion, in the eye of God our father, consists in taking care of orphans and widows in their distress: and in keeping clear of the vices of the age.
Darby Translation
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Godbey New Testament
Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.
Goodspeed New Testament
A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.
John Wesley New Testament
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspoted from the world.
Julia Smith Translation
Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.
King James 2000
Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Modern King James verseion
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.
Moffatt New Testament
Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.
Montgomery New Testament
and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.
NET Bible
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
New Heart English Bible
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Noyes New Testament
Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ones self unspotted from the world.
Sawyer New Testament
Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
The Emphasized Bible
Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.
Twentieth Century New Testament
That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this--to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world.
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.
Williams New Testament
A religious worship that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one's own self unstained by the world.
World English Bible
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Worrell New Testament
A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Worsley New Testament
Pure and uncorrupt religion before God and our Father is this, to take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Youngs Literal Translation
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
Themes
Christian conduct » Keep thyself, special exhortations to
Christian conduct » Visiting the afflicted
Duty toward the Afflicted » To visit them
Fatherless » Admonitions in regard to
Fatherless » Visit in affliction
Life » Spiritual » Spotless, general references to
Love to man » Should be exhibited in » Visiting the sick, &c
Missionaries » In visiting and relieving the poor, the sick, &c
Nazarites » Illustrative of » Saints
Orphans » Admonitions in regard to
Religion » True religion » Scriptural definition of
Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless
Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Visitation of the needy
Spotless » The spotless life, general references to
Sympathy » The marks of true » Visitation of the needy
True religion » Scriptural definition of
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 1:27
Images James 1:27
Prayers for James 1:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers
26
If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.
27 Pure and undefiled religion
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 1:16-17
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.
Psalm 119:1
ALEPH. Blessed are those who walk in the perfect way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 25:34-46
Then shall the King say unto those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.
Galatians 6:9-10
And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
Colossians 3:1-3
If ye then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, modest, benevolent, full of mercy and of good fruits, not judgmental, unfeigned.
1 John 3:17-19
But whosoever has this world's goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?
1 John 5:4-5
For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:18
We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.
Job 31:15-20
Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes and follows after rewards; they do not hear the fatherless in judgment, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.
1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned:
Job 29:12-13
because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.
Isaiah 58:6-7
Is not rather the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the ties of oppression, to release into freedom those who are broken, and that ye break every yoke?
John 17:14-15
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.
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by charity.
Galatians 6:14
But in no wise should I glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.