James 1:27

Pure religion before God is caring for orphans and widows in their distress and keeping oneself unstained by the world. True faith shows itself in compassion and holiness.

Cross-references · 25

• Isa 1:16–17Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• 1 Jn 3:17–19If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
• Gal 6:9–10Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
• Rom 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Matt 25:34–46Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
• Isa 58:6–7Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Job 31:15–20Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
• 1 Tim 5:4But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
• Job 29:12–13because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
• Col 3:1–3Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
• Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
• Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
• Isa 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
• 1 Tim 1:5The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
• John 17:14–15I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
• Gal 6:14But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Gal 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

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