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James 1:27 Cross-References
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“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James 1:27 (KJV)
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Commentary on James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Pure (kathara, καθαρά) and undefiled (amiantos, ἀμίαντος) religion (thrēskeia, θρησκεία) before God the Father is this: visit (episkeptesthai, ἐπισκέπτεσθαι) orphans (orphanos, ὀρφανός) and widows (chēras, χήρας) in their affliction and keep oneself unspotted (aspilon, ἄσπιλον) from the world. James unites mercy and holiness as the twin marks of true worship.Care for the vulnerable reflects God's character (Psalm 68:5), while moral...
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Cross-References for James 1:27
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“make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.”
“and sees his brother in need”
“for we will reap in due season”
“but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”
“'Come”
“to undo the bands of the yoke”
“neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world”
“Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?”
“let them learn first to show piety towards their own family”
“and the fatherless also”