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Abraham and Rahab
How Abraham and Rahab are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Scripture links Rahab back to Abraham.
James links the two as examples of being "justified by works". Abraham offered Isaac, and "Likewise also" Rahab received the messengers.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
James 2:21, King James Version
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works
James 2:25, King James Version
Where they cross: James 2:21-25
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
James 2:21-25
21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23And 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.
24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
King James Version