Salvation

¹⁵ This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

¹⁶ But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

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

Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

² Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

³ With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

⁴ and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.

²¹ Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.

²² Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

⁵ He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

⁶ This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

⁷ so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast.

⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:

⁹ that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰ For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

¹¹ It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

¹³ for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

¹⁷ He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

¹⁸ He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

¹⁹ They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

²⁰ He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

¹⁰ so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

¹¹ being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

¹³ He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

¹¹ For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

¹² As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

¹⁰ As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

¹¹ For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

¹⁵ that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

¹⁸ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.

²⁵ “Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

²⁶ Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the blazing fiery furnace and called out, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire,

²⁷ and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

²¹ Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

²² and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

¹² Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,

¹³ and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

⁸ Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

⁹ He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰ He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

²⁶ When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

²⁷ you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”

Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.

When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

²³ So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

²⁴ Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

²⁵ And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.