James 1:27

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Cross References

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.

James 4:4

Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow have children, or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house, and to make a return of duty to her parents: for this is acceptable before God.

Psalm 119:1

A gradual canticle. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

1 Timothy 1:5

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

Luke 1:6

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

Psalm 68:5

They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

1 John 5:18

We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

James 3:17

But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

Galatians 6:14

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Galatians 1:4

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by charity.

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.

Psalm 146:9

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Matthew 12:32

And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

Romans 2:13

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

Galatians 3:11

But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.

Ephesians 2:2

Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Titus 2:12

Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,

James 3:9

By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

2 Peter 1:4

By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former.

2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.