33 Truths at Salvation for Every Believer
Key Verse: Colossians 1:14 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
Colossians 1:14“Redeemed” pictures a purchase out of slavery — and with it, a verdict lifted entirely, not merely reduced. Both truths rest on the same price paid at the cross.
What This Means for You
“in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
Colossians 1:14 · NASB1995“knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers”
1 Peter 1:18 · NASB1995“being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;”
Romans 3:24 · NASB1995“Redeemed” pictures a purchase out of slavery. Colossians 1:14 puts it plainly: “in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Peter specifies the currency — not “perishable things like silver or gold” (1 Pet. 1:18) but something far more costly, and Romans 3:24 names the result: you are “justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.” The price was paid in full, and the freedom it bought is a gift, not a loan.
“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1 · NASB1995“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”
John 5:24 · NASB1995“But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.”
1 Corinthians 11:32 · NASB1995“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
John 3:18 · NASB1995The legal verdict against you has been lifted entirely. “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1) is as absolute as Scripture gets. Jesus Himself says the one who believes “does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life” (John 5:24), and John 3:18 confirms the flip side is true only for unbelief, not for the one who has trusted Christ. First Corinthians 11:32 clarifies what remains: God still disciplines believers “so that we will not be condemned along with the world” — loving correction, not a reopened verdict.
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Read Colossians 1 · 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.