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Explore similar Bible verses on James 1:27 in English Standard Version

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."

Job 31:17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:18 (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),

Isa 1:17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

Isa 1:23 Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Mt 25:36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

1Ti 5:22 Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

2Pe 3:14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

1Jo 5:18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.