What makes religion pure? Explain how religion can be defiled. What does it mean to “visit” widows and orphans? What is an “orphan” in this passage? Study this word in John 14:18. Can we keep unspotted from the world? How can we live IN the world and not be spotted BY the world?
JAMES 1:27 a;spilon e`auto.n threi/n Instead of the text that is supported by the overwhelming bulk of the witnesses, î74 reads u`peraspi,zein auvtou,j (“to protect themselves”). The plural is also r...
Verse James 1:27. _PURE RELIGION, AND UNDEFILED_] Having seen something of the etymology of the word θρησκεια, which we translate _religion_, it will be well to consider the etymology of the word _rel...
PURE RELIGION - On the word here rendered “religion” (θρησκεία thrēskeia), see the notes at Colossians 2:18. It is used here evidently in the sense of piety, or as we commonly employ the word religi...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
Be sure of it (_cf. mg.),_ he goes on, and turns to ask what conduct right views of God should produce. Humility and self-control, firstly, then purity, gentleness, and teachableness, with unsparing h...
If anyone thinks that he is a worshipper of God and yet does not bridle his tongue, his worship is an empty thing. This is pure and undefiled worship, as God the Father sees it, to visit the orphans a...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
UNDEFILED. Greek. _amiantos._ See Hebrews 7:26. BEFORE. App-104. VISIT. App-133. Compare Matthew 26:36; Matthew 26:43. Personal interest and sympathy are enjoined. Compare...
_Pure religion_ The word still presents the outward aspect of the devout life. Better perhaps, PURE WORSHIP. _undefiled_ The term seems chosen with special reference to the Pharisee's scrupulous care...
ΘΡΗΣΚΕΊΑ. ἄπ. λεγ. in N.T. _Cultus_, religion in its external aspect, the outward observance of religious rites as opposed to εὐσέβεια or piety. “St James is not here affirming, as we sometimes hear,...
19–27. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, CHARACTER AND WORSHIP This theme incidentally arises from the thought of temptation, as moral or religious error, and is immediately connected with the expression ἀπαρχήν τ...
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF PURE RELIGION -- JAMES 1:26-27:_ We learn early in the book of James that an unbridled tongue is a certain proof of a man being only "seemingly religious." James identified what he...
ΆΜΊΑΝΤΟΣ (G283) неоскверненный, чистый, незагрязненный (AS), ΈΠΙΣΚΈΠΤΕΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΈΠΙΣΚΈΠΤΟΜΑΙ (G1980) взирать, посещать, помогать. Это слово часто имеет значение навещать больн...
DISCOURSE: 2362 PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION DESCRIBED James 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 h...
PURE RELIGION— By the word θρησκεια, _religion,_ is often meant the worship of God; but here it evidently takes in a larger compass; namely, that men_visit the fatherless,_ &c. "Pure and undefiled rel...
SERMON OUTLINES HOW TO LISTEN TO A SERMON James 1:20-25 Introduction: If a sermon is wasted, the time gone is multiplied by every person who fails to hear. If 100 people fail to hear one half-hour s...
VAIN AND PURE RELIGION CONTRASTED _Text 1:26-27_ 26. If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain. 27. Pure r...
CHAPTER III _RECEIVING FROM GOD_ James 1:16-27 _Introduction_ After fourteen verses of showing the Way of the Wise, James has concluded that our trials are good for us, producing steadfastnessthat...
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. An example of doing work. Verse 26. RELIGIOUS ... RELIGION, [ three...
VERSE 27. PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILED BEFORE GOD AND THE FATHER IS THIS. The word "religion" occurs but four times in the New Testament, as follows: "That after the most straitest sect of our religion...
26 The outward form of divine service, the rites and ceremonies of the sacerdotal system of Moses, was but the exterior shell of truth. It was the letter: truth was the spirit. The ritual was full of...
1:27 Father (h-9) Or 'God the Father,' Lit. 'God and Father.'...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
(2-27) Immediately after the salutation, and with more or less a play upon the word which we translate “greeting” (“rejoice,” James 1:1; “count it all joy,” James 1:2) there follow appeals on behalf o...
PURE RELIGION... — It will be observed that by religion here is meant religious service. No one word can express this obvious interpretation of the original, taken as it must be in completion of the v...
θρησκεία καθαρὰ … αὕτη ἐστίν …: As illustrating this, Dr. Taylor (_Expos. Times_, xvi. 334) quotes the Ποίμανδρος of Hermes Trismegistos: καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν ὁ θεός, τὸ πᾶν … τοῦτον τὸν λόγον, ὦ τέκνον, π...
Although these verses are organically connected with the preceding section, they are self-contained, and deal with another aspect of religion. While the earlier verses, 19 _b_ 25, emphasise the need o...
DOERS, NOT HEARERS ONLY James 1:19 Keep your mouth closed when you are angry; the inner fire will die out of itself, if you keep the doors and windows shut. In James 1:18 we are taught that God's tru...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
THINGS TRUE HEARERS OF THE WORD WILL DO James' first illustration of one who truly hears the word is in the area of the tongue. Some people outwardly practice religion by regular attendance, taking th...
(19) Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To (z) visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world. (19) The fourth: the tr...
Religion pure and unspotted, &c. St. James may use the word pure, as a proper admonition to the Jews, who were generally mostly solicitous to avoid legal uncleanness, such as were incurred by eating m...
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: (24)...
REFLECTIONS Reader! observe the Apostle's salutation, addressed to the brethren, and see whether you have a personal interest in it. Can you count it all joy, when you fall into divers temptations? Ye...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
_PURE RELIGION_ ‘Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.’ James 1:27 That we, through Christ, have become the sons of...
_THE CHRISTIAN IN THE WORLD_ ‘And to keep himself unspotted from the world.’ James 1:27 As men and women grow older they change. Of all the changes that they undergo, those of their moral natures a...
27_Pure religion_. As he passes by those things which are of the greatest moment in religion, he does not define generally what religion is, but reminds us that religion without the things he mentions...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILED,.... That which is sincere and genuine, and free from adulteration and hypocrisy: BEFORE GOD AND THE FATHER; or in the sight of God the Father of Christ, and all his peopl...
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. Ver. 27. _And widows_] A vine wh...
_If_ &c. Here the apostle shows more particularly who are the doers of the word; 1st, Negatively, in this verse: 2d, Positively, in the next verse. _If any man among you_ Who are professors of Christi...
PURE RELIGION; he described religion by its fruits, and that on two sides: first, that of love and mercy; secondly, that of purity from worldly defilements. FATHERLESS AND WIDOWS; these represent all...
Doers of the Word:...
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. The words which introduce this para...
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
'This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.' 'This is' -In contrast to. religio...
26,27 When men take more pains to seem religious than really to be so, it is a sign their religion is in vain. The not bridling the tongue, readiness to speak of the faults of others, or to lessen th...
PURE RELIGION; true, sincere, genuine, MATTHEW 5:8 1 THESSALONIANS 15:3. AND UNDEFILED; this seems to reflect upon the hypocritical Jews, whose religion consisted so much in external observances, and...
James 1:27 Pure G2513 and G2532 undefiled G283 religion G2356 before G3844 God G2316 and G2532 Father G3962 is...
‘Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.' James is here giving his own mean...
IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT ONLY TO BE A HEARER, IT IS NECESSARY ALSO TO BE A DOER (JAMES 1:22). Having laid a careful foundation in demonstrating that God's People are those whom He has sovereignly begotten...
James 1:27. PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILED. Pure and undefiled may almost be regarded as synonymous terms, the one expressing the idea positively, and the other negatively. Not, as some arbitrarily think...
James 1:19-27. In this passage St. James exhorts his readers to be not only hearers but doers of the word. They are to be swift to hear, and to receive the word implanted within them with freedom from...
PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILED (θρησκεια καθαρα κα αμιαντος). Numerous examples in papyri and inscriptions of θρησκεια for ritual and reverential worship in the Roman Empire (Moulton and Milligan's _V...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos" means "world-system". (James 4:4); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
James 1:27 The Christian Service of God. I. The general meaning and intention of this passage is obvious. No doubt some of these early converts from Judaism, to whom the Epistle of St. James is addre...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
WHAT GOD THE FATHER. "Hypocrites think religion is doing religious things, but here is what God the Father says is religious." Note: the word translated _religion_ means _worship through external thin...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:27 ORPHANS and WIDOWS were particularly helpless in ancient culture, usually lacking anyone to support them (see De
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:19 Hearing and Doing the Word. This section focuses on living as a Christian directed by “the word of truth,” the gospel (v. James 1:18). Christian living
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:26. SEEM TO BE.—Imagine himself to be _religious_; a difficult term, because its meanings have been subject to change. “The Greek adjective is one which express...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 3:17; 1 John 5:18; 1 John 5:4; 1 John 5:5;...
Undefiled [α μ ι α ν τ ο ς]. See on 1 Peter 1:4. The two adjectives, pure and undefiled, present the positive and negative sides of purity. To visit [ε π ι σ κ ε π τ ε σ θ α ι]. See on Matthew 25:36....
The only true religion in the sight of God, is this, to visit — With counsel, comfort, and relief. The fatherless and widows — Those who need it most. In their affliction — In their most helpless and...
Observe here, 1. That the apostle doth not set down the whole of religion, but an eminent part and instance of it only: PURE RELIGION IS THIS, that is, this is the practice of religion, without which...