19 Bible Verses about Beginning Of Salvation
Most Relevant Verses
As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.
For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the Day of Jesus Christ.
And, when these things begin to occur, look upwards and lift your heads, for your deliverance will be at hand."
From his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us--some one must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection."
It was, indeed, fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should, when leading many sons to glory, make the author of their Salvation perfect through suffering.
our eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Leader and perfect Example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God.
What! did God's Message to the world originate with you? or did it find its way to none but you?
For these are the Tidings that we heard from the first--that we are to love one another.
Just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterwards became bearers of the Message.
And, therefore, I also, since I have investigated all these events with great care from their very beginning, have resolved to write a connected history of them for you,
And you at Philippi know, as well as I, that in the early days of the Good News--at the time when I had just left Macedonia--no Church, with the one exception of yourselves, had anything to do with me as far as giving and receiving are concerned.
Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.
I had but just begun to speak," continued Peter, "when the Holy Spirit fell on them, exactly as on us at the first;
Therefore remember from what you have fallen, and repent, and live the life that you lived before; or else, I will come and remove your Lamp from its place, unless you repent.
Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?
Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the first. That old command is the Message to which you listened.
(The rest of the dead were not restored to life till the thousand years were ended.) This is the First Resurrection.
Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that First Resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years.
