Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was justified through actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away on a different road, wasn't she?
New American Standard Bible
In the same way, was not
King James Version
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Holman Bible
And in the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by a different route?
A Conservative Version
And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot made righteous from works, having received the agents, and having sent them out another way?
American Standard Version
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?
Amplified
In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works too, when she received the [Hebrew]
An Understandable Version
And in the same way, was not the prostitute Rahab made right with God by [her] deeds when she welcomed [and protected] the messengers, and [then] sent them away by a different road?
Anderson New Testament
Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Bible in Basic English
And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?
Common New Testament
In the same way was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
Daniel Mace New Testament
was it not likewise for her actions, that Rahab, formerly a loose liver, was accounted as just, for having entertain'd the messengers of Joshuah, and dismiss'd them the securest way?
Darby Translation
But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put them forth by another way?
Godbey New Testament
And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, having received the spies, and sent them out by another way?
Goodspeed New Testament
Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road?
John Wesley New Testament
In like manner Rahab the harlot also was justified by works, having received the messengers and sent them out another way?
Julia Smith Translation
And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way?
King James 2000
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works [when she] welcomed the messengers and sent [them] out by a different route?
Modern King James verseion
And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot justified through works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Moffatt New Testament
So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?
Montgomery New Testament
In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way?
NET Bible
And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?
New Heart English Bible
In like manner was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Noyes New Testament
And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot accounted as righteous through works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Sawyer New Testament
And in like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
The Emphasized Bible
And, in like manner also, Rahab the harlot, Was it not, by works, she was declared righteous, when she gave welcome unto the messengers, and, by another way, urged them forth?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But was not Rahab the harlot in like manner justified by works, when she entertained the messengers, and sent them away by a different road?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Was not it the same with the prostitute, Rahab? Was not it as the result of her actions that she was pronounced righteous, after she had welcomed the messengers and hastened them away by a different road?
Webster
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Weymouth New Testament
In the same way also was not the notorious sinner Rahab declared to be righteous because of her actions when she welcomed the spies and hurriedly helped them to escape another way?
Williams New Testament
Was not even Rahab the prostitute shown to be upright by her good deeds, namely, by entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road?
World English Bible
In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Worrell New Testament
And, in like manner, was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out by another way?
Worsley New Testament
And in like manner also was not the harlot Rahab justified by works, when she entertained the spies, and let them out another way?
Youngs Literal Translation
and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?
Themes
Faith » True, evidenced by its fruits
Faith/faithfulness » Faith without works
Justification » What you are justified by
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 2:25
Questions on James 2:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith And Works
24 You observe that a person is justified through actions and not through faith alone. 25 Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was justified through actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away on a different road, wasn't she? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without actions is also dead.
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Cross References
Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute did not die with those who were disobedient, because she had welcomed the spies with a greeting of peace.
Joshua 2:1
After this, Nun's son Joshua sent two men from the Acacia groves as undercover scouts. He told them, "Go and look over the land. Pay special attention to Jericho." So they went out, came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 2:19-21
Everyone who leaves through the doors of your house into the street will be responsible for his own death, but we'll be responsible for anyone who remains with you in the house if even so much as a hand is laid on him.
Matthew 1:5
Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse,
Joshua 2:4
Now the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she replied, "The men really did come to me, but I didn't know from where they came.
Joshua 2:6
But she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them among stalks of flax that she had laid out in order on the roof.
Joshua 2:15
So she let them down by a rope through the window, since her house was built into the town wall where she lived.
Joshua 6:17
The city along with everything in it is to be turned over to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone who is with her in her house may live, because she hid the scouts we sent.
Joshua 6:22-25
Joshua told the two men who had scouted the land, "Go into the prostitute's home and bring her out of it, along with everyone who is with her, just as you promised her."
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the father's will?" They answered, "The first one."
James 2:18
But someone may say, "You have faith, and I have actions." Show me your faith without any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.
James 2:22
You see that his faith worked together with what he did, and by his actions his faith was made complete.