Through God's gracious gift, individuals can experience salvation, a profound rescue from sin's consequences. According to Ephesians, this salvation is a gift from God, received through faith, and not earned by human effort. The New Testament, particularly in Acts and Romans, emphasizes that believing in Jesus Christ is essential for salvation, as seen in the apostle Paul's teachings and encounters, such as with the Philippian jailer. John's Gospel highlights God's love, demonstrated by giving His Son, Jesus, to save humanity, while Romans underscores the seriousness of sin and the gift of eternal life that comes with salvation.
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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.
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
that 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. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For Christ also suffered 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, in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.