Hebrews 11:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

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  • Jas 2:25 : 25 and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?
  • Josh 6:22-25 : 22 And to the two men who are spying the land Joshua said, `Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all whom she hath, as ye have sworn to her.' 23 And the young man, the spies, go in and bring out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all whom she hath; yea, all her families they have brought out, and place them at the outside of the camp of Israel. 24 And the city they have burnt with fire, and all that `is' in it; only, the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass, and of iron, they have given `to' the treasury of the house of Jehovah; 25 and Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she hath, hath Joshua kept alive; and she dwelleth in the midst of Israel unto this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
  • Matt 1:5 : 5 and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse,
  • Heb 3:18 : 18 and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;
  • Matt 1:1 : 1 A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.
  • Josh 1:1 : 1 And it cometh to pass after the death of Moses, servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, saying,
  • Josh 2:1-9 : 1 And Joshua son of Nun sendeth from Shittim, two men, spies, silently, saying, `Go, see the land -- and Jericho;' and they go and come into the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name `is' Rahab, and they lie down there. 2 And it is told to the king of Jericho, saying, `Lo, men have come in hither to-night, from the sons of Israel, to search the land. 3 And the king of Jericho sendeth unto Rahab, saying, `Bring out the men who are coming in unto thee, who have come into thy house, for to search the whole of the land they have come in. 4 And the woman taketh the two men, and hideth them, and saith thus: `The men came in unto me, and I have not known whence they `are'; 5 and it cometh to pass -- the gate is to `be' shut -- in the dark, and the men have gone out; I have not known whither the men have gone; pursue ye, hasten after them, for ye overtake them;' 6 and she hath caused them to go up on the roof, and hideth them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof. 7 And the men have pursued after them the way of the Jordan, by the fords, and the gate they have shut afterwards, when the pursuers have gone out after them. 8 And -- before they lie down -- she hath gone up unto them on the roof, 9 and she saith unto the men, `I have known that Jehovah hath given to you the land, and that your terror hath fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted at your presence. 10 `For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the waters of the Red Sea at your presence, in your going out of Egypt, and that which ye have done to the two kings of the Amorite who `are' beyond the Jordan; to Sihon and to Og whom ye devoted. 11 And we hear, and melt doth our heart, and there hath not stood any more spirit in `any' man, from your presence, for Jehovah your God, He `is' God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath. 12 `And now, swear ye, I pray you, to me by Jehovah -- because I have done with you kindness -- that ye have done, even ye, kindness with the house of my father, and have given to me a true token, 13 and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.' 14 And the men say to her, `Our soul for yours -- to die; if ye declare not this our matter, then it hath been, in Jehovah's giving to us this land, that we have done with thee kindness and truth.' 15 And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house `is' in the side of the wall, and in the wall she `is' dwelling; 16 and she saith to them, `To the mountain go, lest the pursuers come upon you; and ye have been hidden there three days till the turning back of the pursuers, and afterwards ye go on your way.' 17 And the men say unto her, `We are acquitted of this thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear: 18 lo, we are coming into the land, this line of scarlet thread thou dost bind to the window by which thou hast caused us to go down, and thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all the house of thy father thou dost gather unto thee, to the house; 19 and it hath been, any one who goeth out from the doors of thy house without, his blood `is' on his head, and we are innocent; and any one who is with thee in the house, his blood `is' on our head, if a hand is on him; 20 and if thou declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear.' 21 And she saith, `According unto your words, so it `is';' and she sendeth them away, and they go; and she bindeth the scarlet line to the window. 22 And they go, and come in to the mountain, and abide there three days until the pursuers have turned back; and the pursuers seek in all the way, and have not found. 23 And the two men turn back, and come down from the hill, and pass over, and come in unto Joshua son of Nun, and recount to him all that hath come upon them; 24 and they say unto Joshua, `Surely Jehovah hath given into our hand all the land; and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted at our presence.'

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  • Jas 2:24-26
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    24 Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

    25 and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?

    26 for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

  • Heb 11:27-30
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    27 by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;

    28 by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

    29 By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

    30 by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

  • Josh 6:22-25
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    22 And to the two men who are spying the land Joshua said, `Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all whom she hath, as ye have sworn to her.'

    23 And the young man, the spies, go in and bring out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all whom she hath; yea, all her families they have brought out, and place them at the outside of the camp of Israel.

    24 And the city they have burnt with fire, and all that `is' in it; only, the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass, and of iron, they have given `to' the treasury of the house of Jehovah;

    25 and Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she hath, hath Joshua kept alive; and she dwelleth in the midst of Israel unto this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

  • Josh 6:17
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    17 and the city hath been devoted, it and all that `is' in it, to Jehovah; only Rahab the harlot doth live, she and all who `are' with her in the house, for she hid the messengers whom we sent;

  • Josh 2:1-4
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    1 And Joshua son of Nun sendeth from Shittim, two men, spies, silently, saying, `Go, see the land -- and Jericho;' and they go and come into the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name `is' Rahab, and they lie down there.

    2 And it is told to the king of Jericho, saying, `Lo, men have come in hither to-night, from the sons of Israel, to search the land.

    3 And the king of Jericho sendeth unto Rahab, saying, `Bring out the men who are coming in unto thee, who have come into thy house, for to search the whole of the land they have come in.

    4 And the woman taketh the two men, and hideth them, and saith thus: `The men came in unto me, and I have not known whence they `are';

  • Heb 11:32-35
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    32 And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,

    33 who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

    34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

    35 Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

  • Heb 11:38-39
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    38 of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and `in' mountains, and `in' caves, and `in' the holes of the earth;

    39 and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

  • Heb 11:13
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    13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

  • Heb 11:11
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    11 By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

  • Heb 11:1-9
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    1 And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

    2 for in this were the elders testified of;

    3 by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

    4 by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

    5 By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

    6 and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

    7 By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

    8 By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

    9 by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

  • Josh 2:15
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    15 And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house `is' in the side of the wall, and in the wall she `is' dwelling;

  • Heb 3:18-19
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    18 and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

    19 and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • Ps 89:10
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    10 Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

  • Rom 11:30-31
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    30 for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

    31 so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

  • Heb 4:6
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    6 since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

  • Josh 2:8
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    8 And -- before they lie down -- she hath gone up unto them on the roof,

  • Heb 4:11
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    11 May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

  • Heb 11:23
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    23 By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

  • Rom 9:30
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    30 What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith,

  • Gen 15:6
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    6 And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.

  • Num 14:37
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    37 even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

  • Gal 3:6
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    6 according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

  • Gal 3:11
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    11 and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

  • Josh 2:21
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    21 And she saith, `According unto your words, so it `is';' and she sendeth them away, and they go; and she bindeth the scarlet line to the window.

  • Num 31:16
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    16 lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.