3106 verses about Salvation

Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.

These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour.

The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.

Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.

The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.

They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel.

they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home.

Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God wrought with perfectness wonders for their salvation.

Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen.

Thus says the Lord, of a truth I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made for you highways; I gave you Moses for a leader, and Aaron for a priest.

What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and to them will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.

You⌃ have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.

Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.

I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.

Thus says the Lord to Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel.

Their glory also will I take to me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.

They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savor; they shall neither labor, nor be weary.

Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.

And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs: for I have known my name in them.

For your help will I send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,

As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number.

Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of tribulation and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.

Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.

Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the secret places of the earth, and show mercy to them: for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.

And therefore I say to you, O you⌃ nations, that hear and understand, look for your shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is near at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.

Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.

O receive that which is given you of the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him that has called you to heavenly kingdoms.

Arise up and stand, and behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;

those who withdrew them from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments of the Lord.

Look upon your number, O Sion, and make up the reckoning of those of your that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.

And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted; whereat I marveled greatly.

He answered and said to me, These be those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

So he answered and said to me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend those who stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.

Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.

And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.

For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily; because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and the people whom you have loved is given over to ungodly nations, and the law of our forefathers is made of none effect, and the written covenants are nowhere regarded,

and of all the depths of the sea you have filled you one river: and of all built cities you have hallowed Sion to yourself:

And it shall be that whoever remains after all these things that I have told you of, he shall be saved, and shall see my salvation, and the end of my world.

whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?

and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?

And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.

And whoever is delivered from the foresaid evils, the same shall see my wonders.

For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice those who remain four hundred years.

So also is the judgement which I have promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved, inasmuch as these are those who have made my glory now to prevail, and of whom my name is now named.

For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not for judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death.

For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.

The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.

Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.

First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.

The fifth order, they rejoice, seeing how they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall inherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness and the painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.

And I answered and said, if I have found favor in your sight, show further to me your servant whether in the day of judgment the just will be able to intercede for the ungodly or to entreat the Most High for them,

But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is passed away,

And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?

For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.

so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.

There be many created, but few shall be saved.

For if you have a desire to have mercy upon us, then shall you be called merciful, to us, namely, that have no works of righteousness.

For the just, which have many good works laid up with you, shall for their own deeds receive reward.

but I will rejoice over the framing of the righteous, their pilgrimage also, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.

For as the husbandman sows much seed upon the ground, and plants many trees, and yet not all that is sown shall come up in due season, neither shall all that is planted take root: even so those who are sown in the world shall not all be saved.

in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself worthy to be among the righteous, so as to be much glorified.

For to you is paradise opened, the tree of life planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is built, and rest is allowed, goodness is perfected, wisdom being perfect beforehand.

The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:

sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.

For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:

And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his wotks, or by faith, whereby he has believed,

shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.

For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;

And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.

I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:

And I saw, and spared them, but not greatly, and saved me a grape out of a cluster, and a plant out of a great forest.

Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be saved, and my plant; for with great labor have I made them perfect.

O Lord, you did show yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treadeth and that bears no fruit;

For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you⌃ shall be glorified in it forever.

This woman, whom you saw, is Sion, whom you now see as a city built;

For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be showed, the work of no man’s building could stand.

For you are blessed above many, and with the Most High are called by name, like as but few.

For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been preserved throughout my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the end, even the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken to you from the beginning.

Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not sorrowful, you house of Jacob:

For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who shall be left in those days! and much more woe to those who are not left!

Whereas you have spoken of those who are left behind, this is the interpretation:

He that shall endure the peril in that time shall keep those who are fallen into danger, even such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.

Know therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than those who are dead.

the same is he whom the Most High has kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order those who are left behind.

Behold, the days come, when the Most High will begin to deliver those who are upon the earth.

But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,

the Most High stays the springs of the River again, that they may go through: therefore saw you the multitude gathered together with peace.

But those that be left behind of your people are those who are found within my holy border.

It shall be therefore when he shall destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend the people that remain.

Then went I forth and passed into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time;

and I sent him, and he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me for many days;

for you shall be taken away from men, and from henceforth you shall remain with my Son, and with such as be like you, until the times be ended.

Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,

Therefore if so be that you⌃ will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you⌃ shall be kept alive, and after death you⌃ shall obtain mercy.

but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with a high arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as aforetime, and will destroy all the land thereof.

Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?

Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draweth near, within two or three hours doleful pains compass her womb, and when the child comes forth from the womb, there shall be no tarrying for a moment: