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 himself unspotted from the world.
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
The definition of 'pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father' — 'to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world' — integrates social justice and personal holiness as the two inseparable components of genuine worship. The word 'visit' (episkeptomai) carries the force of active, protective intervention — the same word used for God 'visiting' his people in Luke 1:68, 78 — rather than merely charitable observation. The fatherless and widows represent the Deuteronomic triad of the most vulnerable in Israelite society (Deut. 14:29; 27:19), suggesting that 'pure religion' is measured by how it treats those with no social protections. The verse became a charter text for Christian social ethics, the diaconal tradition, and liberation theology's critique of worship that ignores structural injustice.
अन्य अनुवाद
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.
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
क्रॉस संदर्भ
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing …
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out …
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, …
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the …
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.