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24 You can see, then, that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

25 Likewise, Rahab the prostitute,[a] was she not also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away by a different road? 26 For just as the body is dead without a spirit, so faith without works is also dead.

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:25 Rahab the prostitute: the author of the Letter is not intending to approve Rahab’s occupation but simply to commend the faith she showed in helping the spies (see Jos 2; see also Heb 11:31).