What Is Required for Salvation? Faith Alone?
1) Direct answer
Salvation is God’s gift by grace through faith in Jesus Christ—not by our works. But not “faith alone” as a bare claim or mental assent. True faith receives God’s provided way and obeys: repent, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the Holy Spirit—the new birth.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Ephesians 2:8–9: “By grace are ye saved through faith… not of works.”
- Mark 16:16: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”
- Acts 2:38: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
- John 3:3–5: “Except a man be born again… of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
- Romans 10:9–10: Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth.
- Romans 8:9: “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”
- James 2:17,24: “Faith without works is dead… not by faith only.”
- Ephesians 1:13: After believing, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- The Bible says believe—and be baptized. So a faith that refuses obedience is not the faith the Bible speaks of.
- Jesus said you must be born again of water and Spirit; so the new birth is not optional.
- We do not earn salvation by doing these things; we simply step into God’s provided way. The Blood saves; baptism in Jesus’ Name is our obedience to His command; the Holy Spirit is God’s seal that the work is real.
- A living faith produces a changed life. If the Spirit of Christ is not in us, we don’t belong to Him.
4) Short reinforcement
Come God’s way: repent, believe the gospel, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the Holy Spirit. That is Bible salvation—grace through faith that obeys and is sealed by the Spirit.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The darkest hour, then Jesus comes along
55-1114 §26
He looked around. He seen the woman. How He did it? That's a secret. But He found her. He said (the little woman with the blood issue), said, "Your faith has saved you. Thy faith has saved thee." Now, watch that same word there is the Greek word sozo. Sozo means applying to salvation of the soul or body. Faith... "Thy faith has saved thee," physically. Just the same as thy faith saves thee, spiritually. The same Greek word, sozo. Is that right? All right. See the same word. "Thy faith has saved thee," physically. N...
Be certain of God
59-0125 §20
Then remember, if He is, His words has to be true. And if He required you to meet these circumstances and you did, He's obligated to take care of His Word. Don't back off, and say, "I never got healed; I..." Oh, you poor, weak faith. Don't believe that. If everything's confessed, and everything's out, and you've met God's requirement, faith holds right there. There's nothing will move it. He is, and you're sure. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with the wings of an eagle...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
53-0506 §12
Divine healing lays in Calvary. And the only thing that you can do is point to Calvary. And there's where your salvation lays. You wasn't saved just five years ago, ten years ago, or twenty years ago, or how long it was. You wasn't saved then, see. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago. When Jesus died at Calvary, He took the sins of the world away. You just accepted your salvation so many years ago. But everything that God can do for both sickness and sin has already been appropriated in Calvary. And the only...
A Court Trial
64-0412 §29
...ng. If you accept it and believe it, you're going to act like it. There's going to be such a change in you, there's nothing can take it out of your mind---no more than your salvation. It's God's Word. You've got to accept it on the same basis. By faith you are saved. Jesus said to the woman who touched His garment, He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Now, I'm not a scholar by a long ways, but I have looked up a few words. Now that word there comes from the Greek word, "sozo," which means saved---just like material...
Tested faith produces goods
58-0518 §10
Now, many times... If there was anybody that should be equipped to have faith, is a scholar of the Bible---someone who has read the Bible, taught the Bible. That should be the person that has faith. But sometimes it's very much contrary. I've seen on the platform sainted people who lived a good life walking before God walk across the platform and not be healed, and a prostitute follow them and be healed. God doesn't heal you upon the merits of your salvation, He heals you upon the merits of your faith. You must bel...