James 1:27

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

A clean religion, and unwemmed with God and the Father, is this, to visit fatherless and motherless children, and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself undefouled from this world.

Cross References

Psalm 119:1

Alleluia. [Aleph.] Blessed be men without wem in the way; that go in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord keepeth comelings; he shall take up a motherless child, and a widow; and he shall destroy the ways of sinners.

Psalm 68:5

which is the father of fatherless and motherless children; and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place;

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes be unfaithful, the fellows of thieves; all love gifts, and follow yieldings, either meeds; they deem not to a fatherless child, and the cause of a widow entereth not to them.

Matthew 12:32

And whoever saith a word against man’s Son, it shall be forgiven to him; but who that saith a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven to him, neither in this world, nor in the tother.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed be they that be of clean heart, for they shall see God.

Luke 1:6

And both were just before God, going in all the commandments and justifyings of the Lord, without complaint.

Romans 12:2

And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.

Romans 2:13

For the hearers of the law be not just with God, but the doers of the law shall be made just.

Galatians 1:4

that gave himself for our sins, to deliver us from the present wicked world, by the will of God and our Father,

Galatians 3:11

And that no man is justified in the law before God, it is open, for a rightful man liveth of belief. [Forsooth for no man is justified in the law with God, it is known, for a rightful man liveth by faith.]

Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision is anything worth, neither prepuce, but the belief that worketh by charity [or but faith that worketh by charity].

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to have glory, [no] but 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 ye wandered sometime, after the course of this world, after the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that worketh now into the sons of unbelief;

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the deacon [or Levite] shall come, that hath none other part nor possession with thee, and the pilgrim, and the fatherless, either motherless child, and the widow, that be within thy gates, and they shall eat, and be fulfilled, that thy Lord God bless thee, in all the works of thine hands which thou shalt do.

1 Timothy 1:5

For the end of the commandment is charity of clean heart, and good conscience, and of faith not feigned.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow hath children of sons, learn she first to govern her house, and requite to father and mother; for this thing is accepted before God.

Titus 2:12

and taught us, that we forsake wickedness [or unpiety], and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,

James 3:17

But wisdom that is from above, first it is chaste, afterward peaceable, mild, able to be counselled [or persuadable], consenting to good things, full of mercy and of good fruits, deeming without feigning.

James 3:9

In it we bless God, the Father, and in it we curse men, that be made to the likeness of God.

James 4:4

Adulterers, know not ye, that the friendship of this world is enemy [or enmity] to God? Therefore whoever will be the friend of this world, is made the enemy of God.

2 Peter 1:4

By whom he gave to us most precious promises; that by these things ye shall be made fellows of God’s kind, and flee the corruption of that covetousness, that is in the world.

2 Peter 2:20

For if men forsake the unclean-nesses of the world, by the knowing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and again be enwrapped in these, and be overcome, the latter things be made to them worse than the former.

2 Peter 3:14

For which thing, ye most dear, abiding these things, be ye busy to be found to him in peace, unspotted and undefouled.

1 John 5:18

We know, that each man that is born of God, sinneth not; but the generation of God keepeth him, and the wicked toucheth him not.