Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain. 27 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.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 1:16-17
Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil;
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Romans 12:2
And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
Psalm 119:1
Happy the blameless of way, they going in the law of Jehovah.
Matthew 5:8
Happy the pure in heart: tor they shall see God.
Matthew 25:34-46
Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Luke 1:6
And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.
Galatians 6:9-10
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Colossians 3:1-3
If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 5:4
And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.
James 3:17
And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.
1 John 3:17-19
And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?
1 John 5:4-5
For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith.
1 John 5:18
We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not.
Job 31:15-20
Did not he making me in the womb, make him? And he will prepare us in one belly.
Psalm 68:5
A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
1 Timothy 1:5
(And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith:
Job 29:12-13
For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.
Isaiah 58:6-7
Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke?
John 17:14-15
I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Galatians 1:4
Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision; but faith being energetic through love.
Galatians 6:14
And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.