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Is it possible to fall from grace?
Peter: “If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning” ([2 Peter ii, 20]).
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” ([John x, 27, 28]).
“There is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized.”—Confession of Faith, Art. IX.