Are we Saved by “Faith Alone” or “Faith and Good Works”?

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Jude 3
Beloved, although I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel a need to write to encourage you to contend for the faith that was once for all handed down to the holy ones. Jude 20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the holy Spirit. 2 Tim 1:13 Take as your norm the sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers Titus 1:9 …holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents. 1 Tim 6:20 … guard what has been entrusted to you. 2 Tim 1:14 Guard this rich trust with the help of the holy Spirit that dwells within us. 1 Tim 4:6 If you will give these instructions to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching you have followed. Heb 3:1 Therefore … reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, Heb 4:14 … let us hold fast to our confession. Heb 10:23 Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy. Phil 2:15–16 …that you may be blameless and innocent … as you hold on to the word of life Acts 5:20 Go … and tell the people everything about this life. 1 John 2:24 Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father. 2 Thess 2:15 Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours. Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted. 1 Cor 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you 1 Cor 15:3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received … Gal 2:2 I went up in accord with a revelation, and I presented to them the gospel that I preach to the Gentiles … Rom 2:16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people’s hidden works through Christ. Rom 16:25 Now to him who can strengthen you, according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret for long ages 1 Cor 15:1 Now I am reminding you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Rom 16:25 Now to him who can strengthen you, according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret for long ages 1 Cor 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith. Col 2:7 rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught … Gal 1:23 They (the people of Syria and Cilicia) only kept hearing that “the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.” Eph 4:5 There is one Lord, one faith (church), one baptism; 1 Thess 1:6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the holy Spirit,​
 
Mt 10:22
… but whoever endures to the end will be saved.

Mt 24:13
But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Mk 13:13
But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Lk 9:62
(To him) Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”

1 Cor 10:12
Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall.

Phil 2:12-13
So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.

2 Cor 6:3-5
We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts;

1 Cor 4:3-5
It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord. Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God.

Heb 6:11-12
We earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of hope until the end, so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises.

1 Pet 1:13
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Rom 5:2
… we boast in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 8:24-25
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that sees for itself is not hope. For who hopes for what one sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance.
 
“First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.” St. Paul to the Catholics at Rome (Rom. 1:8)
Read Paul’s letter to the Romans and then get back with me.
Well, SIA, I’ve certainly read it. So if I may, let me now just ask you a few questions:

Why, if you are indeed so opposed to the teachings of the Roman Church, do you appeal to the Father Paul’s epistle to this very same Church at Rome?

How it is that you (apparently) do not see, in contrast to virtually the whole of Protestantism, that the Word of God unreservedly praises the faith and teachings of said Roman Church (an honor and a distinction btw, not accorded to any Protestant church)?

How is it you do not realize that God has so joined the gospel to the faith of the Roman Church that the two are inseparable, and that this was something well understood by all the Church Fathers?

And are you unaware that even some Protestants (perhaps unwittingly) are beginning to recognize this fact? Protestant theologian John Murray for example, commenting on Romans 1:8 writes:
And this passage shows that with the diffusion of the gospel went also the report of the faith of the believers in Rome
The Epistle to the Romans, John Murray, Eerdmans Publishing, 1997, pp. 19-20. ISBN 0802843417

But perhaps you will come to a better understanding of both the gospel and the preeminent position which the Word of God assigns to the Roman Church if you just would take some time to read the little book below (along with prayer of course,).

Here is an excerpt:

You can preview more of the book here:

The Roman Catholic Church: A Divine Institution or a Human Invention?
2006, Adam S. Miller, Tower of David Publications, Monrovia, MD.

You may also wish to browse some of these works:
books.google.com/books?lr=&um=1&q=%22praised+by+the+apostle%22+roman&btnG=Search+Books

If Paul, the herald of the Truth, the trumpet of the Holy Ghost, had recourse to the great Peter, in order to obtain a decision from him for those at Antioch who were disputing about living by the Law, *much more do we small and humble folk run to the Apostolic See *to get healing from you for the sores of the churches. For it is fitting that you should in all things have the pre-eminence, seeing that your See possesses many peculiar privileges.
Leo the Great, letter 52, I,
newadvent.org/fathers/3604052.htm
Still I would assure you that nothing is more my aim than to maintain the rights of Christ, to keep to the lines laid down by the fathers, *and always to remember the faith of Rome; that faith which is praised by the lips of an apostle *…. Romans 1:8
St. Jerome, letter 63:2, to Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria.

newadvent.org/fathers/3001063.htm
I too indeed have attained to a very slight knowledge of the Greek language, scarcely to be called knowledge at all, yet I am not shameless in saying that I know that ὅλον means not “one,” but “the whole;” and that καθ’ ὅλον means “according to the whole:” whence the Catholic Church received its name, according to the saying of the Lord, “It is not for you to know the times, which the Father has put in His own power. But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in Judea, and in Samaria, and even in the whole earth.” Acts 1:7-8
Here you have the origin of the name “Catholic.”
Augustine, Answer to Petilian the Donatist (Book II), ch. 38:91.
newadvent.org/fathers/14092.htm
 
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