Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

116 I love Jehovah, for he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications;

² For he hath inclined his ear unto me, and I will call upon him during [all] my days.

³ The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:

⁴ Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: I beseech thee, Jehovah, deliver my soul.

⁵ Gracious is Jehovah and righteous; and our God is merciful.

⁶ Jehovah keepeth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷ Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.

⁸ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

⁹ I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.

¹⁵ And she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the city-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

¹⁶ And she said to them, Go to the mountain, that the pursuers may not meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards go your way.

¹⁷ And the men said to her, We will be quit of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

¹⁸ Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind in the window this line of scarlet thread by which thou hast let us down; and thou shalt gather to thee in the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household;

¹⁹ and it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street,—his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be innocent; but every one who shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be upon our head, if any hand be upon him.

²⁰ And if thou make known this our business, we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

²¹ And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet line in the window.

²² And they went, and came to the mountain, and remained there three days, until the pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought them all the way, and found them not.

²³ And the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and went over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and related to him everything that had happened to them.

²⁴ And they said to Joshua, Of a surety Jehovah has given the whole land into our hands, and even all the inhabitants of the land faint because of us.

¹⁷ So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

¹⁸ But some one will say, *Thou* hast faith and *I* have works. Shew me thy faith without works, and *I* from my works will shew thee my faith.

¹⁹ *Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.

²⁴ Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.

²⁵ 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?

²⁶ For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.