James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
American Standard Version

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

  1. Men and Women Who Gave Everything · Ochorus Originals

    Pandita Ramabai — The Scholar Who Gave Everything for India’s Daughters cites James 1:27

    …phans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27, NIV). This was not, for Ramabai, a supplement to the gospel — it was its most visible ex…

  2. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Original, Nature, Property, and Use of the Law cites Jas. 1:27

    …t is transcribed into the life, as well as the soul, it is (as the same Apostle terms it, Jas. 1:27) threskeia kathara kai amiantos, pure religion and undefiled; or, the pure, clean, unpoll…

  3. Rise Up, Men of God · Ochorus Originals

    By the Sweat of Your Brow cites James 1:27

    …the orphan, the disabled, the elderly, those truly unable to work. That is true religion (James 1:27). But for the able-bodied man who refuses to work, there is no Christian welfare. Get up.…

  4. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites James 1:27

    …" So the Apostle James, speaking of the proper evidences of true and pure religion, says, James 1:27, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless…

  5. Men and Women Who Gave Everything · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Missional Life cites James 1:27

    …ans 1:21 — “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Chapter 5 — Pandita Ramabai James 1:27 — “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orph…

  6. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fifth Stage cites James 1:27

    …fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27; see also verses 22-26. This, Talkative is not aware of; he thinks that hearing and sayin…

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