"can you show where Paul teaches that works ( law or righteousness) are required for a believer to be saved ?
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Hi zbusc,
Below is todays reading.
You can see that Paul is working to be saved.
He preaches the Gospel,
He made himself a slave to all,
He runs so as to win,
Paul does not preach, 'once saved always saved.'
He works to win an imperishable crown,
while all the while having a fear that he could disqualify himself.
Reading 11 COR 9:16-19, 22B-27Brothers and sisters:
If I preach the Gospel, this is no reason for me to boast,
for an obligation has been imposed on me,
and woe to me if I do not preach it!
If I do so willingly, I have a recompense,
but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
What then is my recompense?
That, when I preach, I offer the Gospel free of charge
so as not to make full use of my right in the Gospel.
Although I am free in regard to all,
I have made myself a slave to all
so as to win over as many as possible.
I have become all things to all, to save at least some.
All this I do for the sake of the Gospel,
so that I too may have a share in it.
Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race,
but only one wins the prize?
Run so as to win.
Every athlete exercises discipline in every way.
They do it to win a perishable crown,
but we an imperishable one.
Thus I do not run aimlessly;
I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing.
No, I drive my body and train it,
for fear that, after having preached to others,
I myself should be disqualified.
