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Jam 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Pure		Jam 3:17; Psa 119:1; Mat 5:8; Luk 1:6; 1Ti 1:5; 1Ti 5:4
To visit		Job 29:12,13; Job 31:15-20; Psa 68:5; Isa 1:16,17; Isa 58:6,7; Mat 25:34-46; Gal 5:6; Gal 6:9,10; 1Jo 3:17-19
to keep		Jam 4:4; Jhn 17:14,15; Rom 12:2; Gal 1:4; Gal 6:14; Col 3:1-3; 1Jo 2:15-17; 1Jo 5:4,5,18

Correlating Passages

Pure

	Jam 3:17	But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
	Psa 119:1	ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
	Mat 5:8	Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
	Luk 1:6	And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
	1Ti 1:5	Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
	1Ti 5:4	But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

To visit

	Job 29:12	Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
	Job 29:13	The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
	Job 31:15	Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
	Job 31:16	If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
	Job 31:17	Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
	Job 31:18	(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
	Job 31:19	If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
	Job 31:20	If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
	Psa 68:5	A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.
	Isa 1:16	Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
	Isa 1:17	Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
	Isa 58:6	[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?
	Isa 58:7	[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
	Mat 25:34	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:
	Mat 25:35	For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
	Mat 25:36	Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
	Mat 25:37	Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink?
	Mat 25:38	When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]?
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	Gal 5:6	For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
	Gal 6:9	And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
	Gal 6:10	As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
	1Jo 3:17	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?
	1Jo 3:18	My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
	1Jo 3:19	And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

to keep

	Jam 4:4	Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
	Jhn 17:14	I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
	Jhn 17:15	I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
	Rom 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.
	Gal 1:4	Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
	Gal 6:14	But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
	Col 3:1	If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
	Col 3:2	Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
	Col 3:3	For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
	1Jo 2:15	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.
	1Jo 2:16	For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
	1Jo 2:17	And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
	1Jo 5:4	For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.
	1Jo 5:5	Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
	1Jo 5:18	We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

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