What God Says
What does God say about salvation?
Jesus says God sent His Son so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life, and that He came to seek and to save the lost. He calls Himself the way, the truth and the life, and promises that He will never turn away anyone who comes to Him. Through the prophets, God calls people everywhere to turn to Him and be saved, and says He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
Here are those passages in His own words, each with its chapter and verse, from the Berean Standard Bible.
On salvation
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. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
John 3:16–17 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25–26 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
John 5:24 “My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
John 10:27–30 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
John 6:37 “For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:40 “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:10 On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:17 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
Revelation 3:20 Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:22 Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Ezekiel 33:11 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
Revelation 22:17 I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
Luke 15:7 And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Luke 23:43 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.”
Isaiah 55:1–3
These are 16 of the 1,730 passages where God speaks in What God Says: Every Word God Speaks in the Bible, Genesis to Revelation, from Biblee Publishing. Every one is printed in the book exactly as it appears here.