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''...if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, '''you will be saved'''. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ...For “'''everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved'''.” <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ro 10:9–11, 13</ref> | ''...if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, '''you will be saved'''. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ...For “'''everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved'''.” <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ro 10:9–11, 13</ref> | ||
''But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eph 2:4–9.</ref> | ''But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — '''by grace you have been saved''' — and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eph 2:4–9.</ref> | ||
''...who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel...<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 2 Ti 1:9–10.</ref> | ''...who saved us and called us to a holy calling, '''not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace''', which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel...<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 2 Ti 1:9–10.</ref> | ||
''But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Tt 3:4–7.</ref> | ''But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, '''he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior''', so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Tt 3:4–7.</ref> | ||
==Conclusion== | ==Conclusion== | ||