James 1:27

English Majority Text Version

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Cross References

Matthew 12:32

And whoever says a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in the coming one.

Matthew 5:8

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

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Romans 12:2

And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 2:13

(for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Galatians 3:11

But that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith."

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

Galatians 6:14

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,

1 Timothy 5:4

But if a certain widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own household and to make repayment to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Titus 2:12

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

James 3:9

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are created according to the likeness of God.

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.

2 Peter 1:4

through which have been given to us precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot or blemish;

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone begotten of God does not sin; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.