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I think that understanding what the content of God's gift of salvation is helps to determine whether it is something that we can lose. Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so living in obedience to it through faith in Jesus is...

Grace us a gift and gift can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as those works are done to earn a wage, however doing good works in obedience to God's law is about God giving us the gift of salvation, not about us earning our salvation as a wage from God, which is why there...

There is a huge difference between the position that our salvation requires us to choose to do works (which is a position that many verses support) and the position that our salvation requires us have first done works in order to earn it as a wage (which is a position that many verses deny)...

In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the law, so Jesus was not doing that. In order to know how to correctly obey the command to love our neighbor as ourselves we need to know how we should love ourselves and the answer to that is that we should love ourselves an Jesus...

Paul spoke about multiple difference categories of law other than the Law of God, so it is important to correctly identify which law he was referring to use not be under so that we don't die to the wrong law. For example, in Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted the Law of God with the law of sin...

In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from God's law, so the NT does not do this, but rather everything it instructs is in accordance with the OT. Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws.

In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, so God does not teach us to obey His law in order to remind us of just how much grace we need, but rather that is how God is gracious to us. Likewise, in Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him...

In Psalms 119:142, God's law is truth, and in John 8:31-36, it is sin in transgression of God's law that put us in bondage while it is the truth that sets us free. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting His law in our minds and writing it on our heart. Likewise, in Ezekiel...

In John 15:10, Jesus used a parallel statement to equate his commandments with those of the Father, and in John 14:24, Jesus said that his teachings were not his own, but that of the Father, so he did not teach his own commandments. God's law is truth (Psalms 119:142), the sum of Gods word is...