James 2:25

New International Version

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?

Cross References

Hebrews 11:31

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

Joshua 2:15

So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall.

Joshua 2:4

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

Joshua 6:17

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

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Matthew 21:31

“Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.

Matthew 1:5

Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,

James 2:22

You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.

James 2:18

But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

Joshua 2:6

(But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)

Joshua 2:16

She said to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way.”

Acts 17:7

and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.”

James 2:24

You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.