What does the Bible say about eternal security?
Does the word appear in the Bible?
The word "eternal security" does not appear in the Bible.
Editorial note: this entry is in review and will be published in full shortly. The full version will document passages cited on each side of the Calvinist/Arminian debate, the contested rendering of Hebrews 6:4-6, and the lexical situation of adunaton ('it is impossible').
Every relevant passage
John 10:28-29
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father's hand.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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