1. Assurance of Salvation

Question 1

2 Corinthians 13:5

Answer 1

1. Can be assured
   Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you – unless, of course, you fail the test?

Question 2

1 John 5:11-12

Answer 2

1. Can be assured
   And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Question 3

1 John 5:13

Answer 3

2. Assured of having eternal life
   I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Question 4

John 6:47

Answer 4

2. Assured of having eternal life
   I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.

Question 5

Ephesians 1:7

Answer 5

3. Forgiveness of sin
   In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.

Question 6

Romans 8:1

Answer 6

3. Forgiveness of sin
   Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Question 7

Romans 3:24

Answer 7

4. Justified
   And are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Question 8

Romans 5:1

Answer 8

4. Justified
   Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Question 9

1 Peter 1:3

Answer 9

5. Born again in Christ
   Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Question 10

Titus 3:5

Answer 10

5. Born again in Christ
   He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Question 11

Galatians 3:26

Answer 11

6. Being children of God
   You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Question 12

Romans 8:14

Answer 12

6. Being children of God
   Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Question 13

Romans 8:9

Answer 13

7. Holy Spirit living in believers
   You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Question 14

John 14:16-17

Answer 14

7. Holy Spirit living in believers
   And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

Question 15

John 10:28-29

Answer 15

8. Salvation never to be lost
   I give them eternal life and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

Question 16

Romans 8:39

Answer 16

8. Salvation never to be lost
   Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Question 17

1 Peter 1:23

Answer 17

9. Assurance based on the Word
   For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

Question 18

Ephesians 1:13

Answer 18

9. Assurance based on the Word
   And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.