James 1:27
To God the Father, religion that is pure and untainted looks like this: going to the help of orphans and widows in their trouble, and keeping yourself unstained by the world.
Treated in 22 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor ·
Children of the Desolate cites James 1:27
…our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction” (James 1:27, ASV). She did not only visit them. She took them home.
- Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor ·
Appendix A: Lessons from the Life of Mary Slessor cites James 1:27
…our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction” (James 1:27, ASV). 19. Strength Is Given Day by Day “I begin every day … in pain,” she said, “and…
- Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites James 1:27
…way for women to live free. Scriptures to revisit Isaiah 54:1; Psalm 68:5-6; Psalm 113:9; James 1:27. Reflection 1. How can the church be a family for the solitary? 2. What did you notice…
- Men and Women Who Gave Everything ·
Pandita Ramabai — The Scholar Who Gave Everything for India’s Daughters cites James 1:27
…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…
- Men and Women Who Gave Everything ·
Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Missional Life cites James 1:27
…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…
- Portraits of Courage – C. S. Lewis ·
Mrs Moore cites James 1:27
…and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” — James 1:27, KJV A Household in Oxford When Lewis returned to Oxford in January 1919, Janie Moore and…
- Portraits of Courage – C. S. Lewis ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites James 1:27
…in a household that was never easy and never fully explained. Scriptures to revisit James 1:27; Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 4:25. Reflection 1. Is there anyone from whom you hide the truth…
- Portraits of Courage – Corrie ten Boom ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites James 1:27
…quiet works that turned out to be preparation. Scriptures to revisit Matthew 25:31-46; James 1:27. Reflection 1. Who are the least in your community? 2. What habits of love are you…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
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…
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
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.…
- Practical Religion ·
The World cites James i. 27
…and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James i. 27.) "Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore…
- Practical Religion ·
Sickness cites James i. 27
…from the world," to "follow the Lord very fully," and to walk very closely with God. (James i. 27; Num. xiv. 24.) I believe that the want of "thoroughness" about many people's…
- C. S. Lewis (For Teens) ·
Mrs Moore cites James 1:27
…and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” — James 1:27 (KJV) When Jack went back to Oxford in January 1919, Janie Moore and Maureen came too. As…
- The Key Teachings of Amanda Berry Smith ·
Suffer the Little Children cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 What she teaches Three things stand out. First, children are to be brought to Christ…
- The Key Teachings of Charles H. Spurgeon ·
The Church at Work cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 It is possible to read Spurgeon’s sermons and forget that he was also one of the great…
- The Key Teachings of F. B. Meyer ·
Whom Will You Neighbour? cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 In The Secret of Guidance he makes care for others the last of his five cautions for the…
- The Key Teachings of John Wesley ·
Works of Piety and Works of Mercy cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 Mercy as a means of grace In On Visiting the Sick Wesley challenges a common assumption.…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
Bethesda and Its Shadow cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 For thirty years one earthly work held George Whitefield’s heart more than any other: an…
- The Key Teachings of John Calvin ·
A School of Christ cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 This was not merely administration. It was, for Calvin, part of what it means to be the…
- The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson ·
The Least of These cites JAMES 1:27
…fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. JAMES 1:27 Both, and neither reduced There is a caution to state, because the century after Simpson…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
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…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
The Original, Nature, Property, and Use of the Law cites Jas. 1:27
…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…