Salvation, Forgiveness of Sins, and Redemption
Acts 10:43- "Of Him (Jesus) all the prophets bear witness that through His name every one who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins."
Romans 5:8- "But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Galatians 2:16- "Nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; since by the works of the law no flesh will be justified."
Ephesians 2:8, 9- "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not as a result of works so that no one may boast."
Colossians 1:13, 14- "For He rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
Colossians 2:13, 14- "When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumsicion of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us; and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
1 John 5:13- "These things I have written to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God (Jesus) in order that you may know
that you have eternal life."
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Romans 3:23- "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
Romans 5:12, 13- "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all have sinned- for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law."
Romans 6:23- "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:7, 8- "The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God."
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Isaiah 46:9, 10- "Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying 'My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure'."
Matthew 7:13, 14- "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it."
John 14:6- "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.'"
Acts 4:12- "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."
Ephesians 4:4-6- "There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all."
1 Timothy 2:5- "For there is one God, and one mediator
also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
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Psalm 119:97, 98, 104- "O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day." "Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine." "From Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way."
Psalm 119:160- "The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting."
Psalm 119:165- "Those who love Your law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble."
Acts 17:11- "Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so."
Colossians 3:16- "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
2 Timothy 3:16, 17- "All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."
1 Peter 2:2- "Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of
the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation"
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Psalm 33:10- "The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples."
Psalm 105:25- "He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants."
Proverbs 16:9- "The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps."
Proverbs 19:21- "Many plans are in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord will stand."
Proverbs 21:1- "The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes."
Jeremiah 1:5- "'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.'"
Romans 8:28- "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."
Romans 9:15, 16, 18- "For He says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.' So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy." "So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires."
Ephesians 1:4, 5- "just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will."
Ephesians 1:11- "In Him also we have obtained an inheritance,
having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after
the counsel of His will."
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John 6:37- "'All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.'"
John 6:44- "'No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.'"
John 6:65- "And He was saying, 'For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.'"
John 10:26, 27- "But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me."
John 12:39, 40- "For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, 'He has blinded their eyes and He hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.'"
John 15:16- "You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed
you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain,
so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you."
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Romans 8:29, 30- "For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many bretheren; and those whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified."
Romans 11:29- "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
1 Corinthians 3:14, 15- "If any man's work which he has built on it remans, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."
Ephesians 1:13, 14- "In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory."
Ephesians 4:30- "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
Hebrews 10:10- "By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
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Galatians 5:16- "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh."
Galatians 5:22, 23- "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Ephesians 5:18- "And do not get drunk on wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit."
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1 Corinthians 10:31- "Whether then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
1 Corinthians 11:1- "Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ."
1 Corinthians 16:13- "Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong."
Ephesians 4:1-3- "Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."
Colossians 1:10- "So that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."
1 Thessalonians 4:1- "Finally then, brethren, we request and exort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more."
1 Peter 1:15- "But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.'"
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Romans 14:19- "So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another."
Ephesians 4:11-13- "And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ."
Philippians 1:27- "Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel."
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Philippians 2:2- "Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose."
1 Thessalonians 5:11- "Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing."
1 Peter 2:9- "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light."
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Acts 20:24- "But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God."
Philippians 1:21- "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."
Philippians 3:7, 8a- "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord."
Philippians 3:20- "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."
Colossians 3:1, 2- "Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth."
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