Salvation and new life

Verses about grace

God saves us as a gift: what we cannot earn, he gives.

30 passages from 16 books

Read it in 7 daysOne passage a day from this topic, with a question to think it over.

1We all need to be saved

2By grace, not by works

3What God has done for us

4Children of God

  • Those who receive Jesus are given the right to become God's children

    But to all who received him, he gave them the right to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.

    John 1:12–13
  • Not slaves in fear, but children who cry “Abba, Father”

    For you did not receive a spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which we cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, also heirs: heirs of God and fellow heirs of the Messiah, if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

    Romans 8:15–17
  • God sent his Son so that we could become children

    But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, so that he might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a son; and if a son, also an heir through God.

    Galatians 4:4–7
  • John is amazed: we really are called children of God!

    See what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

    1 John 3:1–2
  • Jesus speaks of being born again to see God's kingdom

    Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus says to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’

    John 3:3–7

5Safe in his hands

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