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What must I do to be saved? How can I be saved?

SHORT ANSWER

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). Salvation is receiving, by faith, the finished work of Christ who died for your sins and rose again (1 Cor 15:3-4).

What the text states

The gospel is stated plainly: "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and... he rose again the third day" (1 Cor 15:3-4). It is received by faith: "with the heart man believeth unto righteousness... For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom 10:10, 13). Not by works, "lest any man should boast" (Eph 2:9). Not by baptism or ritual, which follow. The offer is to whosoever: "him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37).

What the other side says

(none; the plain gospel is common ground, though Calvinism adds that only the elect are enabled to respond. We hold the offer is genuine to every hearer.)

Go deeper

PROVISIONISM →ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED →
VERIFIED

Checked 2026-09-29 by Darren. 59 Scripture citations verified against the KJV rows. 59 quoted fragments table-passed against the verses table. One correction: once-saved-always-saved cited “unto the day of redemption” to Eph 1:13; the phrase is Eph 4:30, corrected to (Eph 1:13, 4:30) to match the convention used in eternal-security-vs-perseverance. 18 exhibit links checked, all resolve.

Sources read in full: public.verses KJV rows.
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