Appendix in Answer to Once Saved Always Saved Blogs of June and July of 2025

 Before I begin: The list of verses below is NOT saying you can’t go to heaven unless you “pass” all the requirements listed (there are other sins and good works; we’re not trying to list those).  Salvation has an initial date, and also requires a sanctification period for the rest of your life, as you must grow in the Lord.  As I expressed in another blog, INITIAL salvation can be accomplished by (1) BELIEF in what Christ did:  He is God, He died to pay the price to redeem me; He was resurrected—that means I could be resurrected, taking away the power of death.  (2) A desire to REPENT, change my mind and turn away from my sins and the world which I can’t reconcile to God; and (3) Receive an adult BAPTISM to testify to the world that I am on Christ’s side.  Your author differs from most denominations in the second requirement for salvation:  to MAINTAIN my salvation, I must show a love-faith relationship with Christ, so my love and obedience with Him grows.  I progress in sanctification, gradually becoming more like Him in bearing fruit.  (More on fruit of Spirit in Galatians 5).  If I am initially saved, and then I go wandering off into the world’s habits, and don’t develop fruits or relationship (or abiding in Him), then I lose salvation at some point, as Scriptures below will show.  After that, getting “back on track” takes honest confession of weakness and, realizing His holiness and hatred of the practice of sin, and I begin once again the path to sanctification.  God has patience, to a degree.  Some sins are worse than others, and we must discipline ourselves to avoid those altogether.  We must examine ourselves often, confess our sin often, and ask for the Spirit’s help in the power of feeding Christ, and not the world, to make my decisions—and we should read God’s Word often to learn what His commandments are.  We MUST endure to the end to reach Heaven. 

 

All the verses below are from the New King James Version, the only modern translation which has the near-uncorrupted truth. As I point out in a series of blogs, every one of the modern versions is from a corrupt Sinaiticus and Vaticanus Codices. Fortunately, the NKJV only bent a little to bow to the claims of “critical theory.”

THESE ARE NEW TESTAMENT VERSES THAT EITHER (1) DON’T GUARANTEE “ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED,” BY CLEARLY ASSERTING THAT SANCTIFICATION IS REQUIRED; OR (2) INDICATE THAT THERE ARE THINGS WHEREIN YOU COULD LOSE YOUR SALVATION: IT IS NECESSARY TO ENDURE TO THE END, SHOWING GODLY FRUIT AND WORKS:

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Matthew 3:10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees…every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses

Matthew 18:27, 34-35 Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt…. But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat….And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.³⁵ “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

• Matthew 7:14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life (eternal), and there are few who find it.
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• Matthew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven

• Matthew 10:22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
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• Matthew 10:33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven
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• Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works
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• Matthew 24:47-51 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant….Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ ⁴⁹ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, ⁵¹ and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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• Matthew 25: 31-45: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. ³² All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. ³³ And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom…. Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ ⁴⁰ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me….’Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: ⁴² for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink….inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 
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• Mark 3:35 For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother.”
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• Mark 4:16-17,20 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; ¹⁷ and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble….  ²⁰ But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
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• Mark 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
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• Mark 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—
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• Mark 16:16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
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• Luke 8:13-15 ¹⁴ Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and
  pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience
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• Luke 9:23-24 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. ²⁴ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
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• Luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!
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• Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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• Luke 12:47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes
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• Luke 13:6-9 He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. ⁷ Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ ⁸ But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. ⁹ And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.’ ”
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• Luke 14:27-28 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it
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• Luke 15:11,12,24 And He said, “A man had two sons.  “The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth between them…So he got up and came to his father….for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’
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• Luke 16:19-23, 29-31 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.  “And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores….the rich man also died and was buried. “In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me… “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ “But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ “But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
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• Luke 19:27 But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”
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• Luke 20:35 But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead…
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• Luke 21:36 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day (of the Lord, which includes final judgment) come on you unexpectedly. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
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• John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God
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• John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin (as a practice) is a slave of sin.
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• John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me
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• John 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life
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• John 14:15,21 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and Myself to him.”
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• John 15:1-2, 5-6: “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit… ⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 
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• Acts 2:37-38 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?” ³⁸ Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
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• Acts 3:19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
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• Acts 7:39-43b But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt….and I (God) will carry you away beyond Babylon.
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• Acts 10:35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.
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• Acts 22:16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
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• Acts 26:20 First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance
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• Romans 2:5-8,10 But in accordance with your hardness and your  impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: ⁷ eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; ⁸ but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath….but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek
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• Romans 2:13 for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified
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• Romans 6:16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
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• Romans 6:21 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death
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• Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit
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• Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
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• Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live
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• Romans 14:10 Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.
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• I Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
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• I Corinthians 9:27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified (Greek, cast away)
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• I Corinthians 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall
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• I Corinthians 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain
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• II Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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• II Corinthians 6:17-18 “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” ¹⁸ “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.
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• II Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death
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• II Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified (reprobates, failed the test)
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• Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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• Galatians 6:7-9 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸ For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. ⁹ And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart
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• Philippians 2:12,16 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling….¹⁶ holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
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• Philippians 3:11-13 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ¹³ Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
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• Colossians 1:21-23 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled ²² in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— ²³ if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope….
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• I Thessalonians 3:7-8 ^…therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress--we were comforted concerning you by your faith. ⁸ For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
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• I Thessalonians 4:7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness
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• II Thessalonians 1:3-5 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other…which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer 
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• II Thessalonians 1:8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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• II Thessalonians 1:11 To this end, we always pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of His calling, and that He will powerfully fulfill your every good desire and work of faith
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• II Thessalonians 2:12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness
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• I Timothy 1:19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith
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• I Timothy 3:9 They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience
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• I Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
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• I Timothy 4:8 godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
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• I Timothy 5:3,8 Honor widows who are really widows… But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever
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• I Timothy 5:11-12 But refuse the younger widows…having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith
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• I Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
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• I Timothy 6:18-19 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, ¹⁹ storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
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• I Timothy 6:20-21 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the.…contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— ²¹ by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith
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• II Timothy 2:12-13 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. ¹³ If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself (“faithful” means God is true to His pronouncements, for good or bad: He will, in that case, deny us)
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• II Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth
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• Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work
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• Titus 2:11,14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men…. who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
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• Hebrews 3:12, 14 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
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• Hebrews 4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
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• Hebrews 8:9 not according to the covenant that I made
• with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded (NIV, “turned away from”) them, says the Lord
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• Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
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• Hebrews 10:36 You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised
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• Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back,My soul has no pleasure in him.
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• Hebrews 11:6b He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him
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• Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
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• Hebrews 12:28b-29 …let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. ²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.
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• James 1:22 But be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves
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• James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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• James 2:17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
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• James 2:24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only
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• James 4:4 Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God
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• James 5:19-20 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins
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• I Peter 1:13-14a Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ as children of obedience
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• I Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
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• I Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love (brotherly affection) of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
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•  I Peter 2:24 Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having   died to sins, might live for righteousness
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• I Peter 4:2 Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God
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• II Peter 3:17 Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing
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• I Peter 3:21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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• I Peter 4:19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, 
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• II Peter 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
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• II Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
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• I John 1:9 If we confess (Gk tense continuously) our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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• I John 2:17 The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever
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• I John 2:28-29 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming….everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him
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• I John 3:7 He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
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• I John 3:10 Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not (unselfishly) love his (believing) brother.
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• I John 3:17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
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• I John 3:24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
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• III John 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does (practices) evil has not seen God
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• Jude 5 the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe
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• Jude 21 (you must) keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life
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• Revelation 3:15-16 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot…because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.