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NASB | Romans 1:16 ¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 1:16 ¶ I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation [from His wrath and punishment] to everyone who believes [in Christ as Savior], to the Jew first and also to the Greek. |
Subject: The Gospel the sole means of salvation? |
Bible Note: In your reply to Searcher, you quoted the reference he gave you in answer. The Gospel is the message of the means, NOT the means. Here is Rom. 10:8-17 in modern English : 8 No, the word is very near you, ON YOUR OWN LIPS and in YOUR HEART! It is this word, which is the burden of our preaching, and it says, in effect, "If you openly admit by your own lips that Jesus is the LORD, and if you believe in YOUR HEART that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." For it is believing IN THE HEART that makes a man righteous before God, and it is stating his belief by his own lips that confirms his salvation. And the scripture says: "Hos-soever believes in him shall not be disapointed." And that "whosoever' means anyone, without disinction between Jew or Greek. For all have the same LORD, whose boundless resources are sufficient for all who turn to him in faith. For: Whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. Now how can they call on one in whom they have never believed? How can they believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how can they hear unless someone proclaims Him? and Who will go to tell them unless he is sent? as the scripure puts it : How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things! Yet not all have responded to the gospel. Isaiah asks, you remember, LORD, who hath believed our report? FAITH, YOU SEE, CAN ONLY COME FROM HEARING THE MESSAGE, AND THE MESSAGE IS THE WORD OF GOD. Philips p.328,329 |