According to Scripture, salvation is a gift from God, received through faith in Jesus Christ. As Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches, good works are a result of this salvation, not a means to attain it. Jesus Himself declared in John 14:6 that He is the only way to the Father, and John 3:16 emphasizes that God's love and gift of salvation come through faith in Him. The Bible also acknowledges that even our best efforts, as Isaiah 64:6 notes, fall short of God's standard, and Romans 3:23 reminds us that all have sinned and need redemption.
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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.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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.
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.