Salvation & the New Birth
Salvation is God’s work from first to last — he gives new birth, makes us a new creation, and grants eternal life. Whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. These verses trace what it means to be saved and made new.
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. Hownarrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.