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 10:17–30As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
• Luke 18:18–30A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
• John 3:15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
• Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• 1 Jn 5:20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 Jn 1:2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
• Titus 3:7that being justified by his grace, we might 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 of eternal life.
• Luke 10:25–28Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
• 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
• 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
• Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
• Acts 16:30brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
• 1 Jn 5:11–13The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Dan 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 17:2–3even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• John 6:47Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
• John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• 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.”
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Rom 6:22–23But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• Matt 19:26Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
• Matt 19:17–18He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
• 1 Tim 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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