Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ ¶ I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

² Because he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore I will call upon him all of my days.

³ The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of Sheol found me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.

⁴ Then I called upon the name of the LORD, saying, O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

⁶ The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷ Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with thee.

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

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

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

¹⁶ And she said unto them, Go to the mountain lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards ye may go your way.

¹⁷ And the men said unto her, We will be exempted of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear in the following manner.

¹⁸ Behold, when we come into the land, thou shall have bound this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by, and thou shall have brought thy father and thy mother and thy brethren and all thy father’s household home unto thee.

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 own head, and we will be guiltless; and whoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head if any hand touches him.

²⁰ And if thou should declare this our business, then we will be exempted of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

²¹ And she said, According unto 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 unto the mountain and abode there three days until their pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way but did not find them.

²³ So the two men returned and descended from the mountain and crossed over and came to Joshua, the son of Nun, and told him all the things that had befallen them.

²⁴ And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered all the land into our hands; and also all the inhabitants of the land are faint before us.

¹⁷ Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.

¹⁸ But someone may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.

¹⁹ Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well; the demons also believe and tremble.

²⁰ But, O vain man, dost thou desire to know that faith without works is dead?

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

²² Dost thou not see how the faith worked together with his works, and the faith was complete by the works?

²³ And that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.

²⁴ Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

²⁵ Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

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