The Essence Of Pure Religion.

[Scott Hutchinson]

If anyone among you thinks he is religious,and not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart,this one's religion is useless.
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this:to visit orphans and widows in their trouble,and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
JAMES.1:26,27 NKJV

Notice in these verses of scripture useless religion and pure and undefiled religion are mentioned.
Defiled religion is merely and external and decptive because it is based on merely on ritual and self seeking motives,rather than on a relationship with Christ, which goes from the inside to the outside.

Pure religion is not oppressive as it causes one to be concerned about others's welfare and to seek to relieve those such as widows and orphans in their afflictions and offer them hope and to seek to relieve them in their distress.

Deflied religion uses people for it own self seeking purposes.
Those in deflied religion use their tongue for destructive purposes,yet they justify their actions due to their external religious ritualism.

Pure religion causes one to seek to order their life according to kingdom principles rather than the order that those outside of faith govern their lifestyle by.

Pure religion seeks to glorify God and not self,thus causing one to glorify God with their body,when the spirit man is correct and modest the outer man will follow suit,because the grace of God teaches one to live responsible in this world.