"Everyone who calls on the name..."

"Everyone who might call upon the name of the Lord will be saved." (Acts 2:21; Romans 10:13)

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matt. 7:21-23, NKJV)

“But why do you call me ‘Lord! Lord!’ and not do what I say? Everyone coming to me, hearing my words, and doing them—I will show you whom that one is like. He is like a person house-building a house, who dug and made deep and placed a foundation on the rock. And a flood having come, the river beat against that house, and had not power to shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But the one having heard and not doing, is like a person house-building a house on the earth, without a foundation, against which the river beat, and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house became great.” (Luke 6:46-49, CFB)

“And if Father you call upon—the One impartially judging according to the work of each, conduct the time of your pilgrimage in fear, knowing that you were not redeemed by destructible things, by silver or by gold, from your vain conduct of ancestral tradition, but by honourable blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unstained, of Christ, certainly promised before the foundation of the Cosmos, then revealed at the times’ end because of you, the ones faithful through Him to God, the One having raised Him from dead ones and having given Him glory, so that your faith and your hope be in God. Your souls purified, by the obedience to the truth, into brotherly love, unhypocritical, from cleansed hearts, love one another strenuously, born again not from destructible seed, but through the indestructible word of living and abiding God, because

‘All flesh is as grass,

and all its glory as a flower of grass;

The grass has withered and the flower fallen away,

Yet the Word of the Lord abides forever.’” (1 Pet. 1:17-25, CFB)

“Or do you not know that unrighteous [people] will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [malakoì*], nor [arsenokoîtai*], nor thieves, nor [the] covetous, nor drunkards, nor [the] abusive, nor [the] rapacious will inherit God's kingdom. You were even such types. But you are washed,** you are sanctified,** you are made righteous** by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of the God of ours!” (1 Cor. 6:9-11, CFB)

“Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain [who] was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.” (1 John 3:4-9, NKJV)

“Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because having become approved, he will receive the crown of life that He promised to those loving Him. No one, being tempted, is to say, ‘I am tempted by God.’ For God is untemptable by evil, and He tempts no one. But each is tempted by his own lusts, having been drawn away and enticed. Then the lust, having seized [him], gives birth to sin, and the sin, having been completed, brings forth death.” (James 1:12-15, CFB)

“Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!’ But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, ‘Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.’” These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. (Jude 3-19, NKJV)