If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.

Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He replied,

If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.

Those who heard this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?”

Jesus responded, “Salvation has come to this home today, for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham.

For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.”

So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”

The crowd watched and the leaders scoffed. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save himself if he is really God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

They called out to him, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.

Of course, I have no need of human witnesses, but I say these things so you might be saved.

Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.

“Now my soul is deeply troubled. Should I pray, ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But this is the very reason I came!

I will not judge those who hear me but don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it.

But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Then Peter continued preaching for a long time, strongly urging all his listeners, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.

There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

He will tell you how you and everyone in your household can be saved!’

Peter finally came to his senses. “It’s really true!” he said. “The Lord has sent his angel and saved me from Herod and from what the Jewish leaders had planned to do to me!”

“Brothers—you sons of Abraham, and also you God-fearing Gentiles—this message of salvation has been sent to us!

For the Lord gave us this command when he said, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.’”

The Council at Jerusalem

While Paul and Barnabas were at Antioch of Syria, some men from Judea arrived and began to teach the believers: “Unless you are circumcised as required by the law of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus.”