Jam 1:27, 1Pe 1:23, 1Jo 3:9 | ISV | STEP | A religion that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:27

27 A religion that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.Isa 1:16-17; 58:6-7; Matt 25:36; Rom 12:2; James 4:4; 1John 5:18

1 Peter 1:23

23 For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish—by the living and everlasting word of God. ^{▼▼Or by the word of the living and everlasting God}John 1:13; 3:5; James 1:18; 1John 3:9

1 John 3:9

9 No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's ^{▼▼Lit. his} seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.1Pet 1:23; 1John 5:18