Bible Verses About Assurance Of Salvation

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

direct Bible text about knowing you have eternal life

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

direct Bible text about passing from death to life

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

direct Bible text about believing and having everlasting life

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Direct passage about the promise of eternal life

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Direct passage about heirs according to hope of eternal life

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

Direct passage describing hope as an anchor

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Direct passage for hope of salvation

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

direct Bible text about full assurance of hope until the end

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Direct passage that better things belong to salvation

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Direct vine passage

Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Abiding in what was heard from the beginning

And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Commandment-keeping linked to abiding and the Spirit

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Abiding in the word marks true discipleship

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Hope described as unseen salvation

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Keeping commandments and abiding in love

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

eternal life given through the Son

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

confidence before God when the heart does not condemn

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Cannot do anything apart from Christ

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

If abide in me, ask what you will

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Eternal life defined as knowing God and Christ

In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

belonging to life through having the Son

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Abiding should show itself in walking as Christ walked

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

boldness in the day of judgment

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Hope laid up in heaven

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

Hope fixed on the living God

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Hope in Christ beyond this life

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

Boldness to enter the holiest

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Blessed hope language

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Bold access to grace