1. Love: The Primary Evidence

· Love for God: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments." (John 14:15)
· Love for Others: "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death." (1 John 3:14)
· The Sum of the Law: "And he answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.'" (Luke 10:27)

2. Belief: The Foundation

· John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
· Hebrews 11:6: "And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."
· Acts 16:31: "And they said, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved...'"

3. Fruits: The Character Evidence

· Galatians 5:22-23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
· Matthew 7:16-20: "You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit... Thus you will recognize them by their fruits."

4. Works: The Natural Outcome

· Ephesians 2:8-10: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
· James 2:17, 26: "So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead... For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead."

5. Obedience: The Heart Posture

· John 14:23-24: "Jesus answered him, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word... Whoever does not love me does not keep my words.'"
· 1 John 2:3-6: "And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says 'I know him' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
· Matthew 7:24: "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

6. Surrender: The Relational Posture

· Romans 12:1: "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship."
· Luke 9:23: "And he said to all, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.'"
· Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

7. Repentance: The Change of Mind and Direction

  · Acts 2:38: "And Peter said to them, 'Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'"

  · Acts 3:19: "Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out."

  · 2 Corinthians 7:10: "For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death."

  · Matthew 3:8: "Bear fruit in keeping with repentance." (This verse directly links repentance to the "fruits" you mentioned).

8. Confession: The Public Acknowledgment

  · Romans 10:9-10: "Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved." (This powerfully links Belief and Confession).

  · Matthew 10:32: "So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven."

9. Perseverance: The Endurance in Faith

  · Matthew 24:13: "But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

  · Hebrews 3:14: "For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end."

  · Colossians 1:22-23: "...he has now reconciled... if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard..."

  · 1 John 2:19: "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us."