Holiness is not a means to an end—your good works do not save you

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"“Holiness is not a means to an end—your good works do not save you. Rather, holiness is part of the end itself—you were saved in order to do good works, “which God prepared in advance that you should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10). Good works do not achieve salvation (or final salvation-J.F.). Good works are the fruits and results of saving faith." ~Walter Marshall".


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