33 Truths at Salvation for Every Believer
Key Verse: Romans 5:10 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life,”
Romans 5:10Before Christ, you were not merely distant from God — Scripture calls you His enemy. What changed that wasn’t a change in you; it was God Himself moving toward you at the cross, at the highest possible cost, to end a hostility only He could end.
What This Means for You
“Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 · NASB1995“and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”
Colossians 1:20 · NASB1995Paul is emphatic about who moved first: “all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ” (2 Cor. 5:18-19) — not counting your trespasses against you, but instead handing His own ambassadors “the word of reconciliation.” Colossians 1:20 shows the cost: God chose “to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross.” Reconciliation didn’t start with you reaching toward God; it started with God reaching toward you, and it reached all the way to Calvary.
“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life”
Romans 5:10 · NASB1995“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
2 Corinthians 5:20 · NASB1995The result lands on you personally. Romans 5:10 doesn’t soften the starting point — you were “enemies” — before it declares the ending point: reconciled, and now certain to “be saved by His life.” Paul’s appeal in 2 Corinthians 5:20, “be reconciled to God,” is addressed to people for whom the work is already accomplished; it’s an invitation to receive a peace God has already secured, not to help produce it.
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Read Romans 5 · NASB95 on Blue Letter BibleAdapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).
Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.