James 2:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ So also with Rahab the harlot–was she not shown to be justified (pronounced righteous before God) by [good] deeds when she took in the scouts (spies) and sent them away by a different route? [Josh. 2:1-21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

Common English Bible

²⁵ In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute shown to be righteous when she received the messengers as her guests and then sent them on by another road?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Similarly also, Rahab, the harlot, was she not justified by works, by receiving the messengers and sending them out through another way?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?

James 2:25 Cross References

Matthew 1:5

and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.

Acts 17:7

and Jason has entertained them as guests. They are all acting contrary to the decrees of the emperor, saying that there is another king named Jesus.”

Hebrews 11:31

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

James 2:18

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith.

James 2:22

You see that faith was active along with his works, and by works faith was brought to completion.

James 2:24

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Joshua 2:15

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the outer side of the city wall and she resided within the wall itself.

Joshua 2:16

She said to them, “Go toward the hill country, so that the pursuers may not come upon you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; then afterward you may go your way.”

Joshua 2:4

But the woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they came from.

Joshua 2:6

She had, however, brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

Joshua 6:17

The city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live because she hid the messengers we sent.