Salvation is a gift from God, received through faith in Jesus Christ. According to Romans 10:9-10, confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in His resurrection are essential steps towards salvation. The Gospel of John emphasizes God's love, stating that He gave His only Son so that believers might have eternal life, as seen in John 3:16. The apostle Paul further explains in Romans and Ephesians that salvation is a gift of God's grace, not earned by works, as stated in Ephesians 2:8-10, and that all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory, making salvation necessary, as noted in Romans 3:23.
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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 with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
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.
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. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit, in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
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 now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that? So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless? Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did. And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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.