Verse 27

Pure deuotion and vndefyled before God and the father, is this: To visite the fatherlesse and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to kepe hymselfe vnspotted of the worlde.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll, 17 Learne to do well, applie your selues to equitie, deliuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght, let the widdowes complaynt come before you:
  • 1 John 3:17-19 : 17 But who so hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from hym: howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym? 18 My babes, let vs not loue in worde, neither in tongue: but in deede and in veritie. 19 Hereby we knowe that we are of the trueth, and shall assure our heartes before hym.
  • Matt 25:34-46 : 34 Then shall the king say vnto them on his right hande: Come ye blessed of my father, inherite the kyngdome, prepared for you from the foundation of the worlde. 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me drynke: I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: Sicke, and ye visited me: I was in pryson, and ye came vnto me. 37 Then shall the ryghteous aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, & fedde thee? or thirstie and gaue thee drynke? 38 When sawe we thee harbourlesse, and toke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee? 40 And the kyng shall aunswere, and say vnto them: Ueryly I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethren, ye haue done it vnto me. 41 Then shall he saye vnto them on the left hande: Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuyll and his angels. 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drynke. 43 I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me not in: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirste, or harbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in pryson, and did not minister vnto thee? 45 Then shall he aunswere them, saying: Ueryly I say vnto you, in as much as ye dyd it not to one of the least of these, ye dyd it not to me. 46 And these shall go into euerlastyng payne: the ryghteous into lyfe eternall.
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 See that ye loue not the worlde, neither the thynges that are in the worlde. If any man loue the worlde, the loue of the father is not in hym. 16 For all that is in the worlde, as the lust of the fleshe, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the father, but of the worlde. 17 And the worlde passeth away, and the luste thereof: but he that fulfylleth the wyll of God, abydeth for euer.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And fasshion not your selues lyke vnto this worlde, but be ye chaunged in your shape, by ye renuing of your minde, that ye may proue what is the wyll of God, good, and acceptable, and perfect.
  • Gal 6:9-9 : 9 Let vs not be weery in well doyng: for in due season we shall reape, yf we faynt not. 10 Whyle we haue therefore tyme, let vs do good vnto all men, specially vnto the which are of the housholde of fayth.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulterers & adultresses, knowe you not howe that the frendship of the world is enmitie with God? Whosoeuer therfore wylbe a friende of the worlde, is made the enemie of God.
  • 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 But yf any wydowe haue chyldren or nephewes, let them learne first to rule their owne houses godly, and to recompence also their elder kynsefolkes: for that is good and acceptable before God.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaseable, gentle, and easie to be entreated, full of mercie and good fruites, without iudgyng, without simulation:
  • Col 3:1-3 : 1 If ye then be rysen agayne with Christ, seke those things which are aboue, where Christe sitteth on the ryght hande of God. 2 Set your affection on thynges aboue, not on thinges on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your lyfe is hyd with Christe in God.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the ende of the commaundement, is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, & of fayth vnfaigned.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fault with them.
  • Isa 58:6-7 : 6 Doth not this fasting rather please me, That thou lose the wicked bands, that thou take of the ouer heauie burthens, that thou let the oppressed go free, and breake all maner of yoke? 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe?
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 Aleph. Blessed are those that be perfect in the way: walkyng in the lawe of God.
  • Job 31:15-20 : 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies? 16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne: 17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof: 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe) 19 If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment: 20 If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse, and the iudge of widdowes: he is the Lord in his holy habitation.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed (are) the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes are wicked, and companions of theeues: they loue gyftes altogether, and gape for rewardes: As for the fatherlesse they helpe hym not to his ryght, neither wyll they let the widdowes causes come before them.
  • 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For all that is borne of God, ouercommeth the worlde. And this is the victorie that ouercommeth ye worlde, euen our fayth. 5 Who is it that ouercommeth ye worlde, but he which beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God?
  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We knowe that whosoeuer is borne of God, sinneth not: but he that is begotten of God, kepeth hym selfe, and that wicked toucheth hym not.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesus Christe, neither is circumcision any thing woorth, neither yet vncircumcision: but fayth, which worketh by loue.
  • Job 29:12-13 : 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym. 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.
  • John 17:14-15 : 14 I haue geuen them thy worde, and the worlde hath hated them, because they are not of the worlde, euen as I also am not of the worlde. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the worlde: but that thou kepe them from euyll.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 Which gaue hym selfe for our sinnes, to deliuer vs from this present euyll worlde, accordyng to the wyll of God, and our father:
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 God forbyd that I shoulde reioyce, but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesus Christe, wherby the world is crucified vnto me, and I vnto the worlde.