Titus 1:2

Our faith and godliness rest on the hope of eternal life promised by a God who cannot lie. It matters because the certainty of salvation depends on God's unchanging truthfulness.

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• Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
• 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
• Heb 6:17–18Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• 2 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
• Titus 2:13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• 1 Sam 15:29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
• 2 Tim 2:15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
• 2 Tim 2:13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Titus 3:7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Matt 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• 1 Pet 1:20–23Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
• 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.
• Titus 2:7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
• John 3:15–16That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
• 1 Th 5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Rom 5:21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1 Pet 1:3–4Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• John 10:28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
• Matt 25:34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• John 17:2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
• John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
• Rom 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 5:4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
• Prov 8:23–31I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
• Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• Rom 1:2(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
• 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.
• Rev 17:8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Rom 16:25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
• John 17:24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• Acts 15:18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
• John 6:54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

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