Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionFor it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—New Living TranslationGod saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift fro...
Today’s Meditation:In this verse, Scripture means old testament while all means Jews and Gentiles. Old testament confined all under sin in order to give the promised blessings to those who are willing to believe. Paul emphasised salvation can only be attained through faith in Christ. The only...
Expository study of Evangelism: God saves us apart from any human works by grace through faith, resulting in a life of good works.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God--... Read verse in Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionFor in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?New Living TranslationWe were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope ...
I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God. It was not the result of your own
But there is still more to this verse: God gave his only-begotten Son. As John's Gospel declared at the beginning, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God...No one has seen God but God the One and Only." Not only did God send a Savior,...
Jesus is the manifestation of the Bible from Genesis to Revelations. The first verse of the gospel of John states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” As Christians we are the temple of God. 2 Corinthians 6:16 ” for ye are the tem...
James makes this point to show that we are saved by faith alone, but not by faith that is alone. That is why he says in verse 18, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”...
Their pitiful cry in verse 37 ("Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do") brings us to the verse we wish to study. What the Bible says about salvation can well be answered by consid...