Yakobus 2:25

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Dan bukankah demikian juga Rahab, pelacur itu, dibenarkan karena perbuatan-perbuatannya, ketika ia menyembunyikan orang-orang yang disuruh itu di dalam rumahnya, lalu menolong mereka lolos melalui jalan yang lain?

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Dan bukankah demikian juga Rahab, pelacur itu, dibenarkan karena perbuatan-perbuatannya, ketika ia menyembunyikan orang-orang yang disuruh itu di dalam rumahnya, lalu menolong mereka lolos melalui jalan yang lain?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bukankah begitu juga Rahab perempuan sundal itu dibenarkan oleh sebab perbuatannya di dalam hal ia menyambut dan mengulurkan keluar pesuruh itu dari jalan yang lain?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

was: Joshua 2:1, Matthew 1:5

the harlot: Matthew 21:31

justified: James 2:18, James 2:22

when: Joshua 2:19-21, Joshua 6:17, Joshua 6:22-25, Hebrews 11:31

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:25 - because Song of Solomon 1:8 - go

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot,....

:- justified by works; this woman was an instance of the grace of God in calling the chief of sinners, and was a true believer; and what she did, she did in faith, Hebrews 11:31 and her faith was shown by her works to be true and genuine; and it was manifest that she was a justified person. This instance is produced with the other, to show, that wherever there is true faith, whether in Jew or Gentile, in man or woman, in greater or lesser believers, or in such who have been greater or lesser sinners, there will be good works; and therefore that person is a vain man that talks and boasts of his faith, and depends upon it, and slights and rejects good works as unnecessary to be done.

When she had received the messengers: the spies that Joshua sent, into her house, with peace and safety:

and had sent them out another way; than they came in, even through the window upon the town wall, Joshua 2:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works? - In the same sense in which Abraham was, as explained above - showing by her act that her faith was genuine, and that it was not a mere cold and speculative assent to the truths of religion. Her act showed that she truly believed God. If that act had not been performed, the fact would have shown that her faith was not genuine, and she could not have been justified. God saw her faith as it was; he saw that it would produce acts of obedience, and he accepted her as righteous. The act which she performed was the public manifestation of her faith, the evidence that she was justified. See the case of Rahab fully explained in the notes at Hebrews 11:31. It may be observed here, that we are not to suppose that everything in the life and character of this woman is commended. She is commended for her faith, and for the fair expression of it; a faith which, as it induced her to receive the messengers of the true God, and to send them forth in peace, and as it led her to identify herself with the people of God, was also influential, we have every reason to suppose, in inducing her to abandon her former course of life. When we commend the faith of a man who has been a profane swearer, or an adulterer, or a robber, or a drunkard, we do not commend his former life, or give a sanction to it. We commend that which has induced him to abandon his evil course, and to turn to the ways of righteousness. The more evil his former course has been, the more wonderful, and the more worthy of commendation, is that faith by which he is reformed and saved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. Rahab the harlot — Joshua 2:1, c., and "Hebrews 11:31", &c. Rahab had the approbation due to genuine faith, which she actually possessed, and gave the fullest proof that she did so by her conduct. As justification signifies, not only the pardon of sin, but receiving the Divine approbation, James seems to use the word in this latter sense. God approved of them, because of their obedience to his will and he approves of no man who is not obedient.