Bible passages
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New Testament contains 138 verses that with the words "salvation" (45), "save" (41) or "saved" (52). The following are some of the New Testament passages most cited in this regard:
- Belief and baptism:
- "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."[Mk. 16:16]
- "…all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life."[Rom. 6:3-5]
- "Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."[Acts. 2:38]
- "Jesus replied, "Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness." Then John consented."[Mt. 3:15]
- "In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."[Jn. 3:3]
- "After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized."[Jn. 3:22]
- "For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God".[1Peter 1:23]
- Belief in Jesus:
- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."[Jn. 3:16]
- "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved."[Ac. 4:12]
- Born again: "Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again…Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.'"[Jn. 3:3-5]
- Confession and belief:
- "If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved."[Rom. 10:9-10]
- "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."[Rom. 10:13]
- Gift of God through Christ:
- "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."[Rom. 6:23]
- "...And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."[Gen. 22:14] Calvary
- Forgiving others necessary: "If you forgive others when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.[Matt. 6:14-15]
- God's love:
- "God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."[Rom. 5:8]
- "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."[Eph. 2:4-5]
- "When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior…."[Titus 3:4-6]
- Judged by works: "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and everyone was judged according to what they had done."[Rev. 20:12-13] [27]
- Repentance and baptism: "Peter replied, 'Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'"[Acts 2:38]
- Salvation and works: "You see that people are justified by what they do and not by faith alone."[Jas. 2:24] This verse and the surrounding passage is disputed, centering primarily on the meaning of the word justified.[28]
- Salvation by God's Grace, not by works:
- "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast."[Eph. 2:8-9]
- "He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life."[Titus 3:5-7]
- "When the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love towards us, appeared, not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."[Titus 3:4-7]
- Salvation as an ongoing process: "To us who are being saved, (the word of the cross) is the power of God."[1 Cor 1:18][29]
- Salvation as yet to be obtained: "Since, therefore, we are now justified by (Christ's) blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God."[Rom. 5:9]
- Salvation as a narrow path: "Wide is the gate, and broad the way, that leads to destruction, and many go in there: because strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it....[Mt. 7:13-14]
- Sin separates humanity from God.
- "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."[Rom. 3:23]
- "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned...." [Rom. 5:12]
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