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You Need To Be Saved From Your Sins
“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
“There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth god, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way”
(Isaiah 53:6).
“We are all as unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” (Isaiah 64:6).
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his way, and according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:9-10).
“We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is nine righteous, no not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursings and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known:
Their is no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:9-18).
“The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
“Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3).
“He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth in him” (John 3:36).
“Thou shalt call his name JESUS; for he shall save his people from their sins
(Matthew 1:21).
You Cannot Save Yourself
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil” (Jeremiah 13:23).
“The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”
(I Corinthians 2:14).
“The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be” (Romans 8:7).
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end therefore are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified” (Galatians 2:16).
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).
“Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father which has sent me draw him” (John 6:44).
“No man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father” (John 6:65).
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us” (Titus 3:5).
Salvation is of t he Lord
“I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures” (I Corinthians 15:3-4).
“All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation” (II Corinthians 5:18-19).
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (I Peter 2:24).
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (II Corinthians 5:21).
“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be form us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth” (Romans 8:28-33).
“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37).
“For by grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
“Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
“Salvation is of the LORD” (Jonah 2:9).
Repentance and Faith are the Assurances of Salvation
“The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30).
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death” (II Corinthians 7:10).
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:14-15).
“Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21).
“He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24).
“Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent” (John 6:29).
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
“These things I have written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (I John 5:13).
Good Works are the Result of Salvation
“When John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducee s come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance” (Matthew 3:7-8).
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Corinthians 5:17).
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
“Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works” (James 2:17-18).
“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then ye are my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-12).
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him” (John 14:21).
“We are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” (Hebrews 10:39).
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6).
“It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
Prepared by
Jud Paul Travis