buy your way into heaven
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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.
6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
18But when Simon had seen that, by the imposition of the hands of the Apostles, the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19saying, “Give this power to me also, so that on whomever I will lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him: 20“Let your money be with you in perdition, for you have supposed that a gift of God might be possessed by money. 21There is no part or place for you in this matter. For your heart is not upright in the sight of God. 22And so, repent from this, your wickedness, and beg God, so that perhaps this plan of your heart might be forgiven you. 23For I perceive you to be in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
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.
36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But whoever is unbelieving toward the Son shall not see life; instead the wrath of God remains upon him.”
26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
20“Let your money be with you in perdition, for you have supposed that a gift of God might be possessed by money.
23For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12And there is no salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, by which it is necessary for us to be saved.”
6And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.
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.