Is Salvation by faith alone?
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This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Salvation is by faith alone.

Mark 16:16 View context

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.


John 3:18 View context

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.


Acts 16:30-31 View context

And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.


Romans 1:16-17 View context

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.


Romans 3:20 View context

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.


Romans 4:2 View context

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.


Romans 4:13 View context

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.


Romans 5:1 View context

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:


Romans 10:9 View context

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.


Galatians 2:16 View context

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


Galatians 3:11-12 View context

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.


Ephesians 2:8-9 View context

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.


Titus 3:5 View context

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Salvation is not by faith alone.

Psalm 62:12 View context

Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.


Proverbs 10:16 View context

The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.


Ecclesiastes 12:14 View context

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.


Jeremiah 17:10 View context

I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.


Ezekiel 18:27 View context

Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.


Matthew 5:20 View context

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.


Matthew 12:37 View context

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.


Matthew 16:27 View context

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.


Matthew 19:17 View context

And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.


Matthew 25:41-46 View context

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.


Luke 10:26-28 View context

He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.


John 5:29 View context

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.


Romans 2:6 View context

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:


2 Corinthians 5:10 View context

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.


2 Corinthians 11:15 View context

Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.


Philippians 2:12 View context

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.


James 1:22 View context

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.


James 2:14 View context

What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?


1 Peter 1:17 View context

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:


Revelation 2:23 View context

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.


Revelation 20:12-13 View context

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.


Revelation 22:14 View context

Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

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