| 1806 - 658 pagina’s
...vain. The pure and undenled religion before God and the Father is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Alleluia, Alleluia. V. Alleluia, Alleluia V. Christ is risen, and hath Surrexit Christus, et illuxit... | |
| 1832 - 442 pagina’s
...pure religion and undented, before God even the Father, is this, to visit the widow and fatherless in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.' It is something surely that they hold with you, that ' the grace of God hath appeared to all men, teaching... | |
| Alexander Viets Griswold - 1830 - 492 pagina’s
...them. St. James indeed tells us, that " pure and undefiled religion, is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world;" from which it would seem, that works of benevolence and purity of life, are what God requires as necessary... | |
| First Church (Salem, Mass.) - 1832 - 182 pagina’s
...is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of... | |
| J. A. Boddy - 1834 - 212 pagina’s
...says, ' Pure and undented religion before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world,' Miss Harcourt is religious; but as to being dull and gloomy, I can't say, for I never saw any body... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pagina’s
...vain. Pure religion, and undefiled, with God, even the Father, is this: To take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. 11. — My brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partial regard for... | |
| Jacob Henry B. Mountain - 1835 - 482 pagina’s
..." pure religion, and undefiled before GOD and the Father, is this, To visit M 5 the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world ;" that is, to do all the good in our power, and to abstain from all evil; and undoubtedly in labours... | |
| John Greenleaf Adams - 1840 - 282 pagina’s
...Christian is a living contradiction. " Pure and undefiled religion, is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world." Visiting and administering to the necessities of our fellow-men, imply action ; and as to keeping unspotted... | |
| 1845 - 428 pagina’s
...vain ;" and, " Pure and undefilsd religion before God, even the Father, is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world." This is equivalent to righteousness and humanity. It is, then, never used in the Bible at all in the... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 334 pagina’s
...religion, and undefiledj which St. James in a few short words describes: "To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world:" then, to the passion which had sprung up in his heart, was joined a reverent and intense admiration,... | |
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