Matthew 19:16

A man asks Jesus what good deed he must do to gain eternal life. The question matters because it assumes salvation can be earned by works.

Cross-references · 31

• Mark 10:17–30And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
• Luke 18:18–30And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
• John 3:15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
• Matt 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 Jn 1:2(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
• Titus 3:7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• 1 Tim 6:19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
• Luke 10:25–28And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
• 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
• Matt 19:29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
• Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
• Acts 16:30And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
• 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Dan 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 12:25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• Rom 5:21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 17:2–3As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
• John 6:47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
• John 10:28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
• John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
• John 6:27–29Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Rom 6:22–23But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
• Matt 19:26But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
• Matt 19:17–18And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
• 1 Tim 1:16Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

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