James 1:27

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Cross References

Psalm 119:1

ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Psalm 146:9

The LORD preserves the strangers; he gives relief to the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Psalm 68:5

A father for the fatherless, and a judge for the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Matthew 12:32

And whoever speaks 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, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

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 be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Romans 2:13

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

Galatians 1:4

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

Galatians 3:11

But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision profits anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love.

Galatians 6:14

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

Ephesians 2:2

In which in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

1 Timothy 1:5

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

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or nephews, let them first learn to show piety at home, and to repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Titus 2:12

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easily approached, full of mercy and good fruits, without bias, and without hypocrisy.

James 3:9

With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore chooses to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

2 Peter 1:4

By which are given to us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you may be sharers in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

1 John 5:18

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one does not touch him.