"Parentless Children & Husbandless Wives"

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.

Let's look at the Greek definitions for words used in this verse;

Pure (katharos, pronounced kath-ar-os')
Of uncertain affinity; clean (literally or figuratively): - clean, clear, pure.

religion (thrēskeia, pronounced thrace-ki'-ah)
From a derivative of G2357; ceremonial observance: - religion, worshipping.

undefiled (amiantos, pronounced am-ee'-an-tos)
From G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3392; unsoiled, that is, (figuratively) pure: - undefiled.


before (para, pronounced par-ah')
A primary preposition; properly near, that is, (with genitive case) from beside (literally or figuratively), (with dative case) at (or in) the vicinity of (objectively or subjectively), (with accusative case) to the proximity with (local [especially beyond or opposed to] or causal [on account of]). In compounds it retains the same variety of application: - above, against, among, at, before, by, contrary to, X friend, from, + give [such things as they], + that [she] had, X his, in, more than, nigh unto, (out) of, past, save, side . . . by, in the sight of, than, [there-] fore, with. In compounds it retains the same variety of application.


To visit (episkeptomai, pronounced ep-ee-skep'-tom-ahee)
Middle voice from G1909 and the base of G4649; to inspect, that is, (by implication) to select; by extension to go to see, relieve: - look out, visit.


the fatherless (orphanos, pronounced or-fan-os')
Of uncertain affinity; bereaved (“orphan”), that is, parentless: - comfortless, fatherless.


widows (chēra, pronounced khay'-rah)
Feminine of a presumed derivation apparently from the base of G5490 through the idea of deficiency; a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively: - widow.


affliction (thlipsis, pronounced thlip'-sis)
From G2346; pressure (literally or figuratively): - afflicted, (-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.


to keep (tēreō, pronounced tay-reh'-o)
From τηρός teros (a watch; perhaps akin to G2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), that is, to note (a prophecy; figuratively to fulfil a command); by implication to detain (in custody; figuratively to maintain); by extension to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively to keep unmarried): - hold fast, keep (-er), (ob-, pre-, re) serve, watch.


unspotted (aspilos, pronounced as'-pee-los)
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G4695; unblemished (physically or morally): - without spot, unspotted.


from (apo, pronounced apo')
A primary particle; “off”, that is, away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literally or figuratively): - (X here-) after, ago, at, because of, before, by (the space of), for (-th), from, in, (out) of, off, (up-) on (-ce), since, with. In composition (as a prefix) it usually denotes separation, departure, cessation, completion, reversal, etc.


world (kosmos, pronounced kos'-mos)
Probably from the base of G2865; orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]): - adorning, world.

So let's look again at this verse in James 1:27,
Pure worshipping and unsoiled before God and the Father is the man or woman who goes to see and relieve the children who are bereaved because they have parents missing in their life and the women lacking a husband during the time of their anguish and tribulation; and also to maintain themself physically or morally unblemished from the world and its inhabitants.

How pure is our worship to God and the Father?

Do we need to make changes in our lives that we would be unsoiled before God?