James 1:27

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.

Darby Translation

In The 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.

In Context

26If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

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Cross References

Job 29:12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,

Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

Matthew 25:34Then shall the King say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from [the] world's foundation:

John 17:14I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

Matthew Henry on James 1:20-27

On Suppressing Corrupt Affections; The Duty of Hearers; Practical Religion. ( a. d. 61.) 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word,… Read the whole commentary →

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