²⁷Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after^q orphans and widows^r in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.^s

Favoritism Forbidden

2My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious^t Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.^u

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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.

Cross references

q Mt 25:36
r Dt 14:29; Job 31:16, 17, 21; Ps 146:9; Isa 1:17, 23
s Ro 12:2; Jas 4:4; 2 Pe 1:4; 2:20
t Ac 7:2; 1 Co 2:8
uver 9; Dt 1:17; Lev 19:15; Pr 24:23; See Ac 10:34