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Do these verses fully summarize what is needed for salvation?

Mur

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I like to summarize for those who are of the world as to what they should believe and do to be saved. I like to keep it simple for them before going deeper, you know, milk before solids. :) I believe the following verses fully summarize in simple language what is needed for salvation. Would you add, delete, or change anything? Thanks in advance!

Matthew 7:21
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

John 14:15
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Matthew 22:36-40
Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Galatians 5:13-14
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
 

JesusFan

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I like to summarize for those who are of the world as to what they should believe and do to be saved. I like to keep it simple for them before going deeper, you know, milk before solids. :) I believe the following verses fully summarize in simple language what is needed for salvation. Would you add, delete, or change anything? Thanks in advance!

Matthew 7:21
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

John 14:15
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Matthew 22:36-40
Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Galatians 5:13-14
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Gospel is to believe upon the Lord jesus, confessing with your mouth, believing in your heart, and shall be saved
 
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John 14:15
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
1 John 3:23-24, And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us
 
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Zaatar71

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Hello Mur, This fine list of verses seems to be more for what a person is to do, after they are saved, rather than before they are saved. salvation it self is not based on what we do, but rather it is based on what Jesus has done for His elect sheep.
Sinners are urged to believe , or repent and believe. They cannot do this in and of themselves, but if God is working inside them, He will enable them to believe savingly! Several good verse you offered have to do with what would be known as sanctification, or growing in grace and knowledge.
 
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Mur

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1 John 3:23-24, And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us

Great verse! Thank you!

I'll wait to see what other suggestions come in and then I'll revise what I wrote above. I don't want to give them too much in one communique lest they say "TLDR" (too long didn't read).
 

JesusFan

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Hello Mur, This fine list of verses seems to be more for what a person is to do, after they are saved, rather than before they are saved. salvation it self is not based on what we do, but rather it is based on what Jesus has done for His elect sheep.
Sinners are urged to believe , or repent and believe. They cannot do this in and of themselves, but if God is working inside them, He will enable them to believe savingly! Several good verse you offered have to do with what would be known as sanctification, or growing in grace and knowledge.
Some have argued that the repentance required by God was not referring to we must repent and stop all known sinning before can get saved, but that God will bring us to the point that we repent of our efforts to save ourselves by good works and behavior, and rely totally upon Jesus death and resurrection instead
 
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