Scriptures linked with
Eternal Security

John 3:16...... “Everlasting life” (and many more verses say the same)

John 4:14; 6:35...... Never hunger, never thirst

John 5:24...... “Shall not come into condemnation”

John 10:27-30...... Never Perish

John 11:26...... Never die

John 17:12...... Kept by the Lord Jesus

Romans 8:35-39...... Nothing can separate from the love of Christ

2 Corinthians 5:17....The saved are a “new creature”

Ephesians 1:13; 4:30..Seal of the Holy Spirit: Ownership, Guarantee

Ephesians 2:8-9...... “Have been saved”. Salvation is a gift, by faith apart from works

Philippians 1:6...... God’s work in us will be completed.

Hebrews 10:14...... Perfected for ever

Hebrews 10:17...... Remember sins no more

1 Peter 1:3-5...... Inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, fades not away

What does “kept...through faith” mean?

1 John 3:9...... True Christians have a new nature

1 John 5:11-13...... A present possession that is eternal

2 John 9...... Test of reality is continuance. Doesn’t say they can lose what they have

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Scriptures used for “Saved and Lost” teaching

Matthew 7:21-23...... Those who do the Father’s will enter the kingdom of heaven.

Note that it says “I never knew you”

Matthew 12:43-45...... Unclean spirits return

Matthew 24:13...... “endure to the end” - Has to do with the period of the Great Tribulation.

John 8:31...... “If ye continue” – the fact of their salvation is proven by their life

John 15:6...... Those not abiding are thrown away

John 17:12...... Judas – always was a thief; never was converted.

Acts 8:13,20-23...... Simon

Romans 11:22...... Cut off – has to do with Gentiles as a group, not individuals

Galatians 5:6...... Some use this to say that works are also required by the power of the Holy Spirit

They say sons can rebel and be disinherited.

Philippians 2:12...... “Work out” your salvation – let it be at work in your life

Colossians3:24...... Inheritance spoken of as a “reward”

Hebrews 3:12-15...... “if” we hold fast our confidence – shows reality

Hebrews 4:11...... Labor to enter rest

Hebrews 6:4-8...... Enlightened, tasted (but didn’t eat), partakers of Holy Spirit (but not sealed)

Hebrews6:15...... Promise was “obtained” after endurance

Hebrews 10:26-31 .....Sinning willfully: no more sacrifice;

A person may be “sanctified” without being converted.

Hebrews 10:35-39...... Receive promise after doing the will of God; drawing back. “But we…”

Hebrews 12:16-17...... Esau sold birthright

James 2:14, 21-26...... Justified “by works” – Romans tells us justification is by faith, not works.

James speaks of faith in a different way than Paul. Saving faith is proved by works.

1 Peter 4:18...... Saved “with difficulty” – after going through trials and chastening

2 Peter 1:10-11...... “make your calling and election sure”

2 Peter 2:20...... Sow washed but returns – always was a sow.

Jude 5...... Saved from Egypt, then destroyed

Revelation 2:7...... Only overcomers eat of the tree of life

Revelation 22:14...... Those who do God’s commandments have the right to the tree of life

Note ESV: “Blessed are those who wash their robes...”

Revelation 22:19...... Name not removed from book of life – the book of the living.