(Theology disclaimer.. avoid if your not interested) RCC does not believe in the doctrine of Eternal Security. 2 Catholics have asked to discuss proof of it. I think the doctrine is taught very poorly, and misused, but in the correct context of a born again person, is very sound. Key verses.. John 10:27-29 ESV / 57 helpful votes My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Fathers hand. John 6:37 ESV / 52 helpful votes All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. John 10:28 ESV / 41 helpful votes I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 3:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 5:24 ESV / 36 helpful votes Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. 2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 26 helpful votes And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. Romans 11:29 ESV / 24 helpful votes For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 1 John 5:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 17 helpful votes For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, Philippians 1:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. 1 John 5:10-13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. Romans 11:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. Romans 8:34 ESV / 13 helpful votes Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Romans 6:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 9 helpful votes And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” 1 John 2:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. John 6:40 ESV / 8 helpful votes For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” 1 John 3:18-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; Hebrews 10:26-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Galatians 6:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. John 4:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 6:47 ESV / 6 helpful votes Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. John 3:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 3:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. Jude 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 1 John 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for Gods seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. 1 John 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. Helpful Not Helpful Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
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