Believers can have confidence in their eternal destiny through faith in Jesus Christ. According to John 5:24, those who hear and believe have already passed from death to life, while John 3:36 warns that rejecting the Son results in remaining under God's wrath. The apostle Paul teaches in Ephesians 2:8-9 that salvation is a gift of God, not earned by works, providing a foundation for assurance. The letters of John, particularly 1 John 5:11-13, emphasize that believers can know they have eternal life, encouraging them to trust in God's promise despite the challenges of living out their faith.
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Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
and many false prophets will arise and mislead many. Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age— and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.