James 1:27

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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 thinketh he is observant of religion, not curbing his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this one’s, religious observance is, vain:

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Cross References

Job 29:12Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Psalms 68:5The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

Isaiah 1:16Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes,—Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 58:6Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose—To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke,—and To let the crushed go free, and That every yoke, ye tear off?

Matthew 25:34Then, will the king say to those on his right hand: Come ye, the blessed of my Father! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

John 17:14I, have given them thy word, and, the world, hated them, because they are not of the world—even 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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