Grace and salvation (2)

Salvation is all God’s doing

Ro 5:6–8; Eph 1:7; 1 Ti 1:15–16

See also Ex 33:19; Tt 2:11; Ac 4:12; Re 7:10; 2 Th 2:16; Ac 20:24; 2 Co 6:2; Col 1:13–14; Ro 5:15–17; Heb 7:23–25

There is nothing human beings can do to save themselves

Titus 3:4–7 LSB

4 But when the kindness and affection of God our Savior appeared, 5 He saved us, not by works which we did in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

See also Lk 18:9–14; Ro 11:5–6

Salvation is not by keeping God’s law

Galatians 5:4 LSB

4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are being justified by law; you have fallen from grace!

See also Ro 6:14; Ro 8:1–4; 1 Ti 1:9; Ga 2:21; Ro 5:20–21; Ga 3:17–18

Salvation must be accepted as a free gift by faith

Ephesians 2:4–9 LSB

4 But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not of works, so that no one may boast.

See also Heb 4:16; Ac 16:30–31; Ro 5:1–2; Ro 3:21–24; Ac 15:7–11; Ro 4:14–16