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Key Bible Verses about Salvation
Important passages about salvation, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.” The offspring of the woman
God speaks to the serpent after the fall, announcing lasting conflict between the serpent and the woman's offspring, ending with a crushing blow to the serpent's head.
He believed in the LORD, who credited it to him for righteousness. Abram believed the LORD
Childless and old, Abram is told his descendants will be as many as the stars. He believes, and the LORD counts it to him as righteousness. Paul quotes the verse…
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’” All nations blessed through your offspring
After Abraham was willing to offer Isaac, the angel of the LORD repeats God's promise: all the nations of the earth will be blessed through Abraham's offspring, "because you have…
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Immanuel: God with us
Isaiah offers King Ahaz a sign: a young woman (or virgin) will bear a son called Immanuel, "God with us". Matthew 1:22-23 sees it fulfilled in Jesus' birth.
4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Wounded for our transgressions
Part of the fourth Servant Song (52:13-53:12), which describes a servant who suffers for the sins of others. The New Testament applies it to Jesus (Acts 8:32-35; 1 Peter 2:24).
1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, 2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, The Spirit of the Lord is on me
The anointed one announces good news to the poor, freedom for captives and comfort for mourners. Jesus reads this in the synagogue at Nazareth and says it is fulfilled (Luke…
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. I will write my law on their hearts
The promise of the new covenant: God will put his law within his people and forgive their sin. Hebrews 8:8-12 quotes the passage.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. A new heart and a new spirit
God promises the exiles that he will gather them, cleanse them, and replace their heart of stone with a heart of flesh by putting his Spirit within them.
She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.” He will save his people from their sins
The angel tells Joseph in a dream to name Mary's son Jesus, which means "the LORD saves", because he will save his people from their sins.
For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” The Son of Man came to serve
When James and John ask for places of honour, Jesus says greatness means serving, for he came not to be served but to serve and give his life as a…
10The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people. 11For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Good news of great joy
The angel announces Jesus' birth to shepherds near Bethlehem: a Saviour, Christ the Lord, is born.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” To seek and to save the lost
Jesus' words after Zacchaeus the tax collector welcomes him and promises to repay those he cheated.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. 6There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 8He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. 9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. 11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. 12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: 13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. The Word became flesh
John opens his Gospel by calling Jesus the Word who was with God and was God, through whom all things were made, and who became flesh and lived among us.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. God so loved the world
Part of Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus at night. God gave his only Son so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life; verse 17 continues that God sent his…
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” I am the light of the world
Spoken in the temple, probably during the Festival of Tabernacles, when lamps were lit. Whoever follows Jesus will not walk in darkness.
31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” The truth will make you free
Jesus speaks to people who had believed him: if they continue in his word, they will know the truth, and the truth will set them free from slavery to sin…
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. Life to the full
Jesus, the good shepherd, contrasts himself with the thief who comes to steal and destroy: he came so his sheep may have life in abundance.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. The way, the truth and the life
Thomas asks how they can know the way; Jesus answers that he is the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through him.
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. Written so that you may believe
John states the purpose of his Gospel: that readers may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and have life in his name.
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!” No other name
Peter, on trial before the council for healing a lame man, declares that salvation is found in no one else but Jesus.
23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, All have sinned; justified freely by grace
Paul concludes that Jews and Gentiles alike fall short of God's glory and are made right with God as a gift, through the redemption in Christ Jesus.
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; Peace with God
Having been justified by faith, believers have peace with God through Jesus Christ. Paul goes on to speak of hope that does not disappoint (5:5).
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. While we were still sinners
God shows his love in that Christ died for us while we were still sinners, not after we improved.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The wages of sin is death
Paul contrasts what sin pays (death) with God's free gift: eternal life in Christ Jesus.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. No condemnation
After describing the struggle with sin in Romans 7, Paul declares that there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, because the Spirit gives life.
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Confess and believe
Paul explains the word of faith: confessing Jesus as Lord and believing God raised him from the dead brings salvation.
3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, Christ died, was buried and was raised
Paul passes on the message he received: Christ died for our sins, was buried and was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures, and then appeared to many…
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. A new creation
Anyone in Christ is a new creation; the old has gone. Paul goes on to speak of God reconciling the world to himself (5:18-21).
8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not of works, that no one would boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. By grace you have been saved through faith
Salvation is God's gift, not earned by works; yet believers are created in Christ Jesus for good works God prepared for them.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me. I stand at the door and knock
Addressed to the lukewarm church in Laodicea. Christ calls a complacent church to open the door to fellowship with him.
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