Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion; 27 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.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 1:16-17
Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Romans 12:2
and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
Psalm 119:1
Aleph. O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,
Matthew 5:8
Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.
Matthew 25:34-46
'Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Luke 1:6
and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
Galatians 6:9-10
and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
Colossians 3:1-3
If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,
1 Timothy 5:4
and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
James 3:17
and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
1 John 3:17-19
and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?
1 John 5:4-5
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;
1 John 5:18
We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;
Job 31:15-20
Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
Psalm 68:5
Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
1 Timothy 1:5
And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
Job 29:12-13
For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Isaiah 58:6-7
Is not this the fast that I chose -- To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?
John 17:14-15
I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
Galatians 1:4
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
Galatians 5:6
for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
Galatians 6:14
And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;