²⁷Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ^sto visit ^torphans and widows in their affliction, and ^uto keep oneself ^vunstained from the world.

The Sin of Partiality

2My brothers,¹ ^wshow no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, ^xthe Lord of glory.

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James 1:27: 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.

Footnotes

1Or brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 14

Cross references

s Matt. 25:36
t Job 31:17, 18; Isa. 1:17, 23
u 1 Tim. 5:22; 1 John 5:18
v 2 Pet. 3:14
wver. 9; Lev. 19:15; Deut. 1:17; 16:19; Prov. 24:23; Rom. 2:11; Eph. 6:9
x 1 Cor. 2:8; [Acts 7:2]