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.
NIV:
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
I guess my memory is faulty. Sort of. Maybe I was reading the Revised Standard Version, which Bible Gateway doesn't have. Nope. I was wrong there too, though it does say "unstained" rather than "unspotted". The RSV pretty much just takes the KJV and changes the thees, thous and yes (ye plural) to yous and occasional adjusts the word order to more modern usage.
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