James 1:27
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
- BLB
- Pure and undefiled religion before the God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, to keep oneself unstained from the world.
- ÅB
- En ren og usmittet gudsdyrkelse for Gud og Faren er dette: å se til farløse og enker i deres trengsel, å holde seg selv uplettet av verden.
- OTB
- Religion som Gud vår Far aksepterer som ren og feilfri er denne: å ta seg av foreldreløse og enker i deres nød og å holde seg selv uforurenset av verden.
- B1930
- En ren og usmittet gudsdyrkelse for Gud og Faderen er dette: å se til farløse og enker i deres trengsel, å holde sig selv uplettet av verden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 1:16–17
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Read in context1 John 3:17–19
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Read in contextGalatians 6:9–10
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Read in contextRomans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Read in contextMatthew 25:34–46
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Read in contextIsaiah 58:6–7
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Read in context1 John 2:15–17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Read in contextJob 31:15–20
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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