For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

Warning Against Neglecting Salvation

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,

The Founder of Salvation

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.

who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

Judgment on False Teachers

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

Rejoicing in Heaven

After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,