This is a question Peter asks (Chapter 8 Page 153)
This link gives a detailed discussion on this topic.
The conclusion...
Salvation is a free gift that can NEVER be lost. Trust in Jesus! Salvation is by faith alone in Christ, believing in your heart that Christ died for you to pay your debt of sin to God.
Jude 24 through 25 says that, once we are forgiven and saved through faith in Christ, it is God who keeps us from falling so that we don’t lose our salvation, which means keeping yourself saved is not up to you or your obedience.
“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,” (Jude 1:24 KJV)
God has taken it upon Himself to preserve every believer in the faith. That’s why none will be lost. A believer’s obedience or disobedience has absolutely NO EFFECT on his or her salvation, because it is God’s power, not ours, that keeps us from falling. This means we can never lose our salvation.
God will let a believer suffer consequences for sinning in an attempt to get that believer to turn back to Him, and may even take a believer home early rather than let that believer become irretrievably lost.
So trust in Jesus, be at peace that you are saved and enter His rest by walking in His Spirit and confessing sins regularly, not to keep your salvation but to keep in good fellowship with God, so that He doesn’t have to discipline you.
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