Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

116 O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.

² For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.

¹⁵ Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

¹⁶ And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.

¹⁷ And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear:

¹⁸ If when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren and all thy kindred into thy house.

¹⁹ Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.

²⁰ But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall be quit of this oath which thou hast made us swear.

²¹ And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done. And sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.

²² But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three days till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them through all the way, they found them not.

²³ And when they were gone back into the city, the spies returned, and came down from the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they came to Josue the son of Nun, and told him all that befel them.

²⁴ And said: The Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.

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

¹⁸ But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

¹⁹ Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also 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, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴ Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?

²⁵ And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?

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