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Rahab’s living faith

James 2:24-26 (JDV)

James 2:24 You see that a person is proved to be right by results and not by faith alone.
James 2:25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also proved to be right by results in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route?
James 2:26 For just as the body without the breath is dead, so also faith without results is dead.

Rahab’s living faith

Rahab had every reason to be prejudiced against the Israelite spies. They were scouts looking for weaknesses and she was their enemy. But by faith, she looked beyond her own identity and saw God at work. Yet James is arguing here that if Rahab had simply believed that God was behind the spies, it would have been dead faith. Living faith acts on that belief and produces results. Rahab’s living faith hid the spies and protected them. By doing so, she was protecting herself and her family.