For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.