Matthew 1:24 Cross References - MNT

²⁴ Now when Joseph awoke from his sleep he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him, and took his wife home,

⁵ His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he may tell you to do, do it." ⁶ Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons. ⁷ Jesus said, "Fill up the jars with water." ⁸ So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you.

⁷ By faith Noah, warned of God of things not yet seen, reverently gave heed, and built an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is of faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. ²⁶ He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he established the Passover, and the sprinkling with blood, in order that the Destroying Angel might not touch the firstborn. ²⁹ By faith the people crossed over the Red Sea as on dry land; and when the Egyptians tried to do this they were swallowed up. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab, the harlot, perished not with the disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

²¹ Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar? ²² You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith. ²⁵ In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way? ²⁶ So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.