being saved
What does the Bible say about being saved? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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9For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved.
8For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. 9And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
31So they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and then you will be saved, with your household.”
38Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
16Whoever will have believed and been baptized will be saved. Yet truly, whoever will not have believed will be condemned.
9For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved. 10For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
21Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23And then will I disclose to them: ‘I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’
6So then, we may confidently say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me.”
23For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
13For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
24Do you see that a man is justified by means of works, and not by faith alone?