The Egyptian Emblem of Charity
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…


A boy, naked, his heart in his hand, giving honey to a bee that has lost its wings. How beautiful and how suggestive!

(A. T. Pierson, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: 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.

WEB: Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.




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