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 you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• 1 Jn 3:17–19But 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?
• Gal 6:9–10And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Rom 12:2And 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.
• Matt 25:34–46Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
• Isa 58:6–7Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Job 31:15–20Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
• 1 Tim 5:4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
• Job 29:12–13Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
• Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
• Col 3:1–3If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
• Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
• Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Isa 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Tim 1:5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
• John 17:14–15I 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.
• Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Gal 1:4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
• Gal 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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