Does salvation and eternal life with our Creator come just by belief only? Does it require ANY effort on our part? Is the typical Evangelical teaching about the "sinner's prayer" and "once saved, always saved" true or false?

1. ARE WE SAVED BY GRACE,
FAITH, WORKS,
SOME COMBINATION...
or JUST BELIEF?
Answers straight from the Scriptures

2. How Are We Saved?
Matthew 10:22
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that
endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 19:17-26
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have
eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is,
God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus
said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus
said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that
saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples,
Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say
unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can
be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all
things are possible.

3. How Are We Saved?
Matthew 24:13
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth
not shall be damned.
Luke 13:23-24
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he
said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say
unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

4. How Are We Saved?
John 10:9
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall
go in and out, and find pasture.
Acts 2:21
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name
(character) of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 15:1, 11
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren,
and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye
cannot be saved.
But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we
shall be saved, even as they.

5. How Are We Saved?
Acts 16:31
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house.
Romans 8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a
man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Romans 9:27
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children
of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

6. How Are We Saved?
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with
the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.
Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call upon the name (character) of the Lord shall be
saved.

7. How Are We Saved?
Romans 11:26
And so all (spiritual) Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob:
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God:
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus:

8. How Are We Saved?
Romans 3:28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law.
James 2:14-18
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and
have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked,
and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in
peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those
things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith,
if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou
hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I
will shew thee my faith by my works.

9. How Are We Saved?
James 2:20, 26
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is
dead also.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
1 Timothy 2:3-5
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who
will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the
truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;

10. How Are We Saved?
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to
his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing
of the Holy Ghost;
1 Peter 4:18
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and
the sinner appear?
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
life, and few there be that find it.

11. How Are We Saved?
John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and
they are they which testify of me.
John 6:54
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I
will raise him up at the last day.
John 10:27-29
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I
give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand.

12. How Are We Saved?
John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this
world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 17:1-3
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal,
that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent.
Romans 2:7
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
honour and immortality, eternal life:

13. How Are We Saved?
Romans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art
also called, and hast professed a good profession before many
witnesses.

14. How Are We Saved?
1 John 3:15
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no
murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven.

15. How Are We Saved?
Matthew 12:36-38
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou
shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Acts 13:38-39
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this
man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that
believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified
by the (ceremonial) law of Moses.
Romans 2:12-13
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For
not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law
shall be justified.

16. How Are We Saved?
Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his
sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through him.

17. How Are We Saved?
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we
might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law:
for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Galatians 2:17
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are
found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
Galatians 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident:
for, The just shall live by faith.

18. How Are We Saved?
Galatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that
we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 5:4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified
by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
James 2:24
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

19. How Are We Saved?
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.
Psalm 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Matthew 18:3-4
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become
as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same
is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

20. How Are We Saved?
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven.
John 14:21
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth
me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love
him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

21. How Are We Saved?
1 John 2:4
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right
to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

22. How Are We Saved?
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