It is a common belief today that all religions are different roads to the same God. In fact, to suggest otherwise can get someone labeled as "close-minded." It is even considered to be "bigoted" to claim one's own religion is somehow superior to another's religion.

²¹And she will give birth to a Son, and you will call His name Jesus ["Yahweh saves"], for He will save His people from their sins."

¹³"Enter in through the narrow gate, because wide [is] the gate and spacious [is] the way which leads to the destruction, and many are the ones entering in through it. ¹⁴How narrow [is] the gate and having been constricted [is] the way which leads to the life, and few are the ones finding it!

¹¹For the Son of Humanity came to save the ones having been lost.

Matthew 11:27-30:

²⁷All [things] were handed over to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son, except the Father, nor does anyone fully know the Father, except the Son, and [the person] to whom the Son shall be desiring to reveal [Him]. ²⁸Come to Me, all the ones laboring and having been burdened, and I will give you* rest. 29Take My yoke upon you* and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, ‘and you* will find rest for your* souls.' [Jer 6:16, Heb.] 30For My yoke [is] easy, and My burden is light."

²⁸Just as the Son of Humanity did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life [as] a ransom [or, price of release] for [or, in the place of] many."

²⁶Now while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread and having bestowed a blessing upon [it], broke [it] and began giving [it] to the disciples. And He said, "Take, eat; this is My body." ²⁷And having taken the cup and having given thanks, He gave [it] to them, saying, "Drink from it, all [of you], ²⁸for this is My blood, the [blood] of the New Covenant, the [blood] poured out on behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.

Luke 13:23-24:

²³Now someone said to Him, "Lord, are the ones being saved few?" And He said to them, ²⁴Be striving to go in through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you*, will seek to enter and will not be able.

¹⁹And having taken bread, having given thanks, He broke [it] and gave [it] to them, saying, "This is My body, the [one] being given on your* behalf; be doing this in remembrance of Me." ²⁰And in the same manner [He took] the cup after [they] ate, saying, "This cup [is] the New Covenant in My blood, the [blood] being poured out on your* behalf.

⁴⁶And He said to them, "Thus it has been written, and thus it was necessary [for] the Christ to suffer and to rise from [the] dead the third day, ⁴⁷and [for] repentance and forgiveness of sins to be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

²⁹The next day he sees Jesus coming towards him and says, "Look! The Lamb of God, the One taking away the sin of the world!

¹³"And no one has ascended into heaven, except the One having descended from heaven—the Son of Humanity, the One being in heaven. ¹⁴And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [see Numb 21:6-9], so it is necessary [for] the Son of Humanity to be lifted up, ¹⁵so that every[one] believing [or, trusting] in Him shall not perish, but shall be having eternal life."

¹⁶For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten [or, unique] Son, so that every[one] believing [or, trusting] in Him shall not perish, but shall be having eternal life! [cp. 1John 4:14] ¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world so that He should judge the world, but so that the world shall be saved through Him. ¹⁸The one believing [or, trusting] in Him is not judged, but the one not believing already has been judged, because he has not believed in the Name of the only-begotten [or, unique] Son of God….

³⁵The Father loves the Son and has given all [things] into His hand. 36The one believing [or, trusting] in the Son has eternal life, but the one refusing to believe the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. [cp. 1John 5:12]

²⁸Therefore, they said to Him, "What shall we be doing so that we shall be working the works of God?" ²⁹Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you* be believing [or, trusting] in Him whom that One sent."

²⁵Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life! The one believing in Me, even if he dies, he will live! ²⁶And every[one] living and believing [or, trusting] in Me shall by no means die into the age! [fig., forever!] Do you believe this?" [or, Are you convinced of this?"] 27She says to Him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed [or, am convinced] that You are the Christ, the Son of God, the One coming into the world."

⁶Jesus says to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life! No one comes to the Father except through [or, by means of] Me!

John 17:3:

³Now this is eternal life: that they shall be knowing You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You sent.

³⁰Now indeed many other signs Jesus also did in the presence of His disciples which have not been written in this scroll. ³¹But these have been written so that you* shall believe [or, be convinced] that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that believing you* shall be having life in His name.

¹²"And [there] is no salvation in any other, for neither [is there] a different name, the One having [or, which has] been given among people by which it is necessary [for] us to be saved!"

³⁹"And we are witnesses of all [things] which He did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also executed, having hanged [Him] on a tree [or, a cross]. ⁴⁰This One God raised up on the third day and gave Him to become visible, 41not to all the people, but to witnesses, the ones having been chosen beforehand by God, to us who ate together and drank together with Him after He rose from [the] dead. ⁴²And He gave strict orders to us to preach to the people and to solemnly testify that He is the One having been designated by God [to be] Judge of living [people] and of dead [people]. ⁴³To this One all the prophets bear witness [that] through His name every[one] that is believing [or, trusting] in Him receives forgiveness of sins."

⁷Now much debate having taken place, having risen up, Peter said to them, "Men, brothers, you* know that from former days God chose among us [for] the Gentiles to hear the word of the Gospel through my mouth and to believe. ⁸And the heart-knowing God testified to them by having given the Holy Spirit to them, just as also to us, [see Acts 10:44] ⁹and also distinguished nothing between us and them, having purified [or, purged] their hearts by faith. ¹⁰Now therefore, why are you* testing God [by trying] to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? ¹¹But we believe [we are] saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, according to which manner they also [are]."

³⁰And having brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what is it necessary [for] me to be doing so that I shall be saved?" ³¹So they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your house!

²⁹"Therefore, being offspring of God, we ought not to be thinking the Divine Nature to be similar to gold or silver or stone, an image [shaped by] humanity's skill and imagination [or, [the] craftsmanship and consideration of a person]. ³⁰Therefore indeed, the times of such ignorance having overlooked, God is now giving strict orders to all people everywhere to be repenting, ³¹because He set a day in which He is about to be judging the inhabited earth in righteousness by a Man whom He designated, having given assurance to all by having raised Him from [the] dead!"

²⁹[Is He] the God of Jews only, but not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles, 30since [there is] one God who will justify [or, will declare righteous] [the] circumcision by faith and [the] uncircumcision through faith.

⁸But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" [Deut 30:14]—that is, the word of the faith which we are preaching, ⁹that if you confess with your mouth [the] Lord Jesus [or, [that] Jesus [is] Lord], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from [the] dead, you will be saved! [cp. 1Cor 12:3] ¹⁰For with the heart it is believed to righteousness, and with the mouth it is confessed to salvation.

¹¹For the Scripture says, "Every one believing on [or, trusting in] Him will not put to shame." [Isaiah 28:16, LXX] ¹²For there is no difference [or, distinction] [between] both Jew and Greek, for the same [Lord is] Lord of all, being rich [fig., giving generously] to all the ones calling on Him. ¹³For every[one], "who himself shall call on the name of [the] Lord will be saved!" [Joel 2:32]

Ephesians 2:8,9:

⁸For by grace you* have been saved, through faith, and this [is] not from you*; [it is] the gift of God, ⁹not by works, so that no one shall boast.

¹My little children [or, My dear children], I am writing these things to you* so that you* do not sin. And if anyone should sin, we have a Counselor [or, an Advocate; cp. John 14:16] with the Father, Jesus Christ, [the] righteous. ²And He is [the] propitiation [or, appeasing sacrifice] concerning our sins, but not concerning ours only, but also concerning [those] of the whole world!

¹⁴And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [as] Savior of the world! [cp. John 3:16] ¹⁵Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹Every one believing [or, who is convinced] that Jesus is the Christ [or, the Messiah] has been begotten from God, and every one loving the One having begotten loves also the one having been begotten from [or, by] Him….

⁹If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater; because this is the testimony of God which He has testified concerning His Son. ¹⁰The one believing [or, trusting] in the Son of God has that testimony in him; the one not believing God, has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning His Son. ¹¹And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in His Son. 12The one having the Son has the life; the one not having the Son of God does not have the life. [cp. John 3:36]

¹³These things I wrote to you*, the ones believing [or, trusting] in the name of the Son of God, so that you* shall know that you* have eternal life, and so that you* shall be believing [or, shall continue believing] in the name of the Son of God.

⁹And they sing a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because You were slain, and You redeemed us to God by Your blood, out of every tribe and tongue [fig., language group, and throughout book] and people and nation, ¹⁰and made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign as kings on the earth!"

⁹After these [things] I saw, and look!, a large crowd, which no one was being able to number, out of every nation and from tribes and people and tongues, having stood before the throne and before the Lamb having been clothed in long, white robes and palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰And they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "The salvation [belongs] to our God, the One sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

¹⁴And death and the realm of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if anyone was not found having been written in the Scroll of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

¹And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth went away [fig., had disappeared]. [cp. Isaiah 65:17; 2Peter 3:13] And the sea is not [any]more [fig., the sea no longer exists]. ²And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having been prepared like a bride having been adorned [for] her husband.

³And I heard a loud voice out of heaven, saying, "Look! The tabernacle of God [is] with the people, and He will tabernacle [or, dwell] with them! And they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them. ⁴And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not be [any]more [fig., death will no longer exist], nor sorrow, nor crying, nor will pain be [any]more [fig., pain will no longer exist], because the first [things] passed away." …

²⁷And by no means shall any defiling [thing] and [anyone] doing an abomination and a lie enter into it, but only the ones having been written in the Scroll of Life of the Lamb…

The Gospel message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ is for all peoples, and this includes you, the reader. If you have not trusted in Christ for your forgiveness and salvation, now is the time to do so.

Listen! Now [is the] acceptable time. Listen! Now [is the] day of salvation (2Corinthians 6:2).

Scripture taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament of the Holy Bible: Third Edition. Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry (www.zeolla.org/christian). Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 By Gary F. Zeolla.