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Salvation
through Jesus Christ
This page shows some of the key verses that make
up the message of Salvation through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
While the entire Bible carries this message, these verses are
examples of the different steps toward Salvation.
If anyone has other verses that are especially
important to this message, please submit them to the
Cool Spring Web Team.
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God loves us, and
wants to have a relationship with us.
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The LORD, the LORD, the
compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and
faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving
wickedness, rebellion and sin. |
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Exodus 34:6-7 |
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Know
therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God,
keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who
love him and keep his commands. |
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Deuteronomy 7:9 |
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God is love. Whoever
lives in love lives in God, and God in him. |
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1 John 4:16 |
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I
trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever. |
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Psalm 52:8 |
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How great is the love
the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of
God! And that is what we are! |
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1 John 3:1 |
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We
love because he first loved us. |
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1 John 4:19 |
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However, we have
rebelled against God, and our Sin separates us from God.
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But your iniquities
have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face
from you, so that he will not hear. |
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Isaiah 59:2 |
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I am
unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin… |
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Romans 7:14 |
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There is a way that
seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. |
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Proverbs 14:12 |
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Nothing
in all of creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is
uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give
account. |
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Hebrews 4:13 |
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Most of us try to do
good things (works) to get back to God, but we cannot earn back
God's forgiveness or re-establish our relationship with Him through
our own efforts.
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All of us have become
like one who in unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy
rags… |
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Isaiah 64:6 |
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For
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. |
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Ephesians 2:8,9 |
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I will expose your
righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you. When
you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The
wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. |
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Isaiah 57:12-13 |
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...they
pursued it not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled
over the 'stumbling stone.' |
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Romans 9:32 |
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Through our sins and
our broken relationship with God, our punishment is death and
eternal separation from God.
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For the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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Romans 6:23 |
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I
told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that
I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins. |
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John 8:24 |
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So that we can
re-establish our relationship with Him, God provided his Son, Jesus
Christ, to do for US what we cannot do for ourselves.
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But God demonstrates
his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ
died for us. |
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Romans 5:8 |
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Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the
unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body
but made alive in the Spirit… |
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1 Peter 3:18 |
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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. |
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John 3:16 |
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For
there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus
Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all men. |
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1 Timothy 2:5-6 |
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Jesus Christ paid the
ultimate sacrifice for our sins through His death on the cross.
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This is my blood of the
new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of
sins. |
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Matthew 26:28 |
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He
personally carried away our sins in his own body on the cross so we
can be dead to sin and live for what is right. You have been healed
by his wounds! |
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1 Peter 2:24 |
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When we accept the
gift of Jesus Christ from God, and admit that we have sinned and ask
for His forgiveness, our sins ARE forgiven, and our relationship
with God is rebuilt.
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…for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. |
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Romans 3:23-24 |
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...there
is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
who repents. |
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Luke 15:10 |
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If you confess with
your mouth - Jesus is Lord - and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. |
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Romans 10:9 |
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By accepting and
believing in Jesus Christ, we ask for His leadership and guidance
through life. We are reborn as a new person, in Christ.
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Yet to all who received
him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become
children of God. |
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John 1:12 |
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Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the
new has come! |
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2 Corinthians 5:17 |
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Now you are the body of
Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. |
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1 Corinthians 12:27 |
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But
we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was
dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. |
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Luke 15:32 |
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After accepting Jesus
Christ, our good deeds, or works, are done to honor Him, not
ourselves. We do not earn salvation by doing good works, but
rather the works come FROM salvation by Jesus.
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What good is it, my
brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such a
faith save him? … In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not
accompanied by action, is dead. |
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James 2:14,17 |
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Everything
comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your
hand. |
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1 Chronicles 29:14b |
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However, I consider my
life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete
the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the
gospel of God’s grace. |
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Acts 20:24 |
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For
we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do. |
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Ephesians 2:10 |
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By accepting Jesus, we
defeat death, and can look forward to an eternal relationship with
God.
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For there is no
difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all,
and richly blesses all who call on him, for, 'Everyone who calls on
the name of the Lord will be saved.' |
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Romans 10:12-13 |
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Where,
O death is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? |
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1 Corinthians 15:55 |
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I write these things to
you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know
that you have eternal life. |
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1 John 5:13 |
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...many
live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is
destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their
shame. Their mind is on earthly things. But our citizenship is in
heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus
Christ... |
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Philippians 3:18-20 |
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In my father's house
are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going
there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come back and take you to be with me… |
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John 14:2-3 |
Jesus is the Bridge
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