Salvation
Compilation of Pertinent Bible Verses on How Can a Man beSaved
(Salvation is defined as being accepted by God into His heavenly kingdom to enjoy an eternal life)
- Overall Conclusions
a.Because man sins against God, hecan not be reconciled with God
b.God provides salvation for all mankind before the time of creation
c.Salvation is to be delivered to this world through Lord Jesus Christ
d.Lord Jesus died for our sins on the cross therefore opens the way to salvation for us to be reunited with God
e.Salvation is the grace, mercy and a gift from God to all mankind
f.However, salvation is not guaranteed even for the appointed
g.To received this promised Salvation, a man must, among other things,
- repent his sins
- call upon Lord Jesus Christ and believe in Him
- born of water and the Spirit
- partake the Holy Communion
- understand God’s will and follow Jesus’ teachings
- live in a transformed life and
- have good deeds
h.Now is the Acceptable Time and the Day of Salvation
- What Was Your Understanding of Salvation Before You Studying These Verses?
- If Salvation Related to Man’s Deeds?
- What is the Significance of Salvation to Our Daily Life as a Christian?
- What Adjustments Should We Make in Our Attitudes and Actions to Secure Our Salvation?
Salvation
Compilation of Pertinent Bible Verses on How Can a Man be Saved
(Salvation is defined as being accepted by God into His heavenly kingdom to enjoy an eternal life)
- Salvation Belongs to God, He Grants Man Such Privilege
NIV Revelation 19:1 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah!Salvation and glory and power belong to our God
NIV Galatians 1:3-4 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father
NIV 2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
1.1Man needs salvation because of sin
NIV Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin. and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned
NIV Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NIV Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
NIV Romans 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
1.2Satan, the Devil, controls the world, causes man astray and to sin
NIV 1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
NIV Revelation 12:9 The great dragon was hurled down-- that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
NIV Romans 7:17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
NIV 1 John 3:8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
NIV Ephesians 2:1-3 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.
1.3Man can not deliver himself from Evil’s reign or save himself from sin
NIV Romans 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
NIV Romans 7:18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
NIV Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
NIV 1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
NIV Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NKJ Luke 8:12 "Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
1.3.1Without salvation, we are eternally dead
NIV Matthew 25:46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
NIV Matthew 25:41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
NIV Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-- their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
1.4God wants every human being to be saved; Salvation is prepared for all mankind
NIV Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?'
NKJ 1 Timothy 2:4who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth
NIV Isaiah 52:10 The LORD will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
NIV Isaiah 49:15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
NIV 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
1.4.1Men are dear to God
NIV John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
NIV Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
NIV Psalm 144:3 O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?
NIV Psalm 8:3-4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
1.4.2Lord Jesus instructed His disciples to preach the gospel to all mankind
NIV Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
NIV Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
NIV Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
NIV Luke 24:47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
1.4.3Citizens of the heavenly kingdom came from every nation, tribe, people and language
NIV Revelation 7:9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
NIV Galatians 3:27-28 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
1.5God prepared Lord Jesus for our Salvation
NIV Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
NIV Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
NIV Joel 2:32 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
NIV John 6:40 For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
NKJ John 3:17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
1.5.1Jesus Christ came into the world to save us from death
NIV 1 Timothy 1:15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners-- of whom I am the worst.
NIV 2 Corinthians 1:10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us,
1.6Jesus is Salvation
1.6.1God granted Lord Jesus the salvation authority
NIV John 17:2For you (God) granted him (Jesus Christ) authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
NIV John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
NIV Acts 13:47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us: "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
NIV Acts 28:28 "Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!"
1.6.2Jesus is salvation
NIV John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
NIV Acts 4:12salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
NIV Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
NIV Luke 2:29-32 "Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel."
NIV Luke 3:6 And all mankind will see God's salvation.”
NIV John 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
NIV 1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
NIV Luke 19:9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
1.7Lord Jesus Christ has overcame the Devil, sin and death
1.7.1Lord Jesus’ victory over the Devil
NIV Hebrews 2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-- that is, the devil—
NIV Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
1.7.2Lord Jesus keeps us from Satan’s control and sin
NIV John 10:28 I (Lord Jesus) give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
NIV John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
NIV 1 John 5:18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.
NIV Acts 26:18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
NIV 1 John 5:4-5 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1.7.3True peace and eternal life comes from Lord Jesus
NIV John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
NIV Revelation 3:20-21 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
1.8To receive salvation, man must has faith
NIV Ephesians 2:8-9For 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.
NIV Hebrews 4:1-2 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
1.9Repentance leads to salvation
NIV Luke 13:3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
NIV Luke 15:7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
NIV 2 Corinthians 7:10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
NIV 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
1.9.1Example in Apostolic time
NIV Acts 2:37-39 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" 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. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off-- for all whom the Lord our God will call."
1.10 Take Action Today! Now is the Acceptable Time and the Day of Salvation
NIV 2 Corinthians 6:2 For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
NIV Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.'
NIV Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
NIV Isaiah 49:8 This is what the LORD says: "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
1.10.1Pray today to God for Salvation
NIV Psalm 32:6 Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found; surely when the mighty waters rise, they will not reach him.
NIV 1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray.
NIV Psalm 69:13 But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.