James 1:27

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 119:1

ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah.

Psalm 146:9

Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Psalm 68:5

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Isaiah 1:23

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor 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, either in this world or 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 blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will 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 is clear, for, "The just shall live by faith."

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.

Galatians 6:14

But may it never be for me to boast, 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 you once 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, who are inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

1 Timothy 1:5

But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Titus 2:12

teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

James 3:9

By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

2 Peter 1:4

through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Peter 2:20

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him.