Through faith in Jesus Christ, believers are assured of eternal salvation, a gift that secures their eternal relationship with God. As 2 Timothy and Jude affirm, God is able to guard and keep His people, ensuring their safe arrival in heaven. Jesus Himself promised in John 10 that those who come to Him will never perish, and John's first letter confirms that eternal life is found in Him. The Bible teaches that this salvation is a present possession, as stated in 1 John, and a future hope, giving believers confidence and joy in their walk with God.
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And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Jude 1:1
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Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy— to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
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.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.
Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
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.
He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
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.
placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.