Ephesians 2:8

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For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

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  • Eph 2:5 : 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
  • Rom 3:22-26 : 22 namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 25 God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. 26 This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
  • Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change. 18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
  • Acts 16:31 : 31 They replied,“Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children 13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
  • John 6:37 : 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
  • John 6:44 : 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • Luke 7:50 : 50 He said to the woman,“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
  • John 5:24 : 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
  • John 6:27-29 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.” 28 So then they said to him,“What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?” 29 Jesus replied,“This is the deed God requires– to believe in the one whom he sent.”
  • John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
  • John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
  • John 6:35 : 35 Jesus said to them,“I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.
  • John 6:65 : 65 So Jesus added,“Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”
  • John 3:14-18 : 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • Col 2:12 : 12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
  • Rom 10:17 : 17 Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.
  • 1 John 5:10-12 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.) 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
  • 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
  • Eph 1:19 : 19 and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.
  • Rom 10:14 : 14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?
  • Rom 4:5 : 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • Acts 15:7-9 : 7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,“Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe. 8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered him,“You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
  • Phil 1:29 : 29 For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him,
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Acts 16:14 : 14 A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a God-fearing woman, listened to us. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.

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  • Eph 2:9-10
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    9it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

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    4But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

    5he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

    6whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

    7And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”

  • Eph 2:4-5
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

    5even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–

  • Eph 2:7
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    7to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 3:24
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    24But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 11:6
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    6And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • Titus 2:11
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    11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

  • Eph 1:6-7
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    6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

    7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace

  • Rom 5:1-2
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    1The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

    2through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

  • Eph 4:7
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    7But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

  • Eph 3:7-8
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    7I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

    8To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

    5But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

    6So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Acts 15:11
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    11On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

  • Eph 1:13-14
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    13And when you heard the word of truth(the gospel of your salvation)– when you believed in Christ– you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

    14who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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    22namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • Rom 6:23
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    23For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

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    5Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

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    14and our Lord’s grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

    28For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

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    4Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 3:2
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    2if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

  • Rom 5:15
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    15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

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    14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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    2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

  • 1 Thess 5:9
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    9For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Pet 1:3
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    3Believers’ Salvation and the Work of God I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

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    2and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.

  • 2 Thess 2:13
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    13Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

  • Jas 2:24
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    24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.