James 1:27

Catholic Public Domain Version

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.

Cross References

Psalm 119:1

A Canticle in steps. When troubled, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me.

Psalm 146:9

He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.

Psalm 68:5

Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Matthew 12:32

And anyone who will have spoken a word against the Son of man shall be forgiven. But whoever will have spoken against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven, neither in this age, nor in the future age.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Luke 1:6

Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.

Romans 12:2

And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself on behalf of our sins, so that he might deliver us from this present wicked age, according to the will of God our Father.

Galatians 3:11

And, since in the law no one is justified with God, this is manifest: "For the just man lives by faith."

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything, but only faith which works through charity.

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do."

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of instruction is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Titus 2:12

instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,

James 3:17

But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness.

James 3:9

By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God.

James 4:4

You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.

2 Peter 1:4

Through Christ, he has given us the greatest and most precious promises, so that by these things you may become sharers in the Divine Nature, fleeing from the corruption of that desire which is in the world.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after taking refuge from the defilements of the world in the understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled and overcome by these things, then the latter state becomes worse than the former.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, most beloved, while awaiting these things, be diligent, so that you may be found to be immaculate and unassailable before him, in peace.

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone who is born of God does not sin. Instead, rebirth in God preserves him, and the evil one cannot touch him.