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 3:22–26even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
• Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
• John 1:12–13But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
• Rom 10:17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
• Rom 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
• John 6:27–29Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• Luke 7:50He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
• Rom 4:5But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
• John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
• John 3:14–18As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
• Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Gal 3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
• John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
• Gal 3:14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
• John 6:35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
• 1 Jn 5:10–12He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
• Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• Rom 10:14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• John 6:65He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
• Eph 1:19and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
• Acts 15:7–9When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.
• Matt 16:17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
• Acts 16:14A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Phil 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
• 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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