Ephesians 2:8

We are saved by grace through faith, and this is not our own doing but God's gift. It is the classic summary of salvation by grace alone through faith alone.

Cross-references · 36

• Rom 3:22–26And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
• Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
• Rom 4:16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
• John 1:12–13But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
• Rom 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• Rom 10:9–10that 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.
• Acts 16:31They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Jas 1:16–18Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
• John 5:24Truly, 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.
• John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
• John 6:27–29Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
• Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
• Luke 7:50And Jesus told the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
• Rom 4:5However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
• John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
• John 3:14–18Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
• Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
• Gal 3:22But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
• Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
• John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• Gal 3:14He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
• John 6:35Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
• 1 Jn 5:10–12Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
• Col 2:12And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
• Rom 10:14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
• Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
• John 6:65Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
• Eph 1:19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
• Acts 15:7–9After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
• Matt 16:17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
• Acts 16:14Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
• 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Phil 1:29For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,
• 2 Th 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

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