Buying your Way into Heaven
6 passages
- Ephesians 2:8–9
8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not by works, so that no one can boast.
Read it in context - John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Read it in context - Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Read it in context - James 2:26
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Read it in context - John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
Read it in context - Acts 4:12
Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
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