One verse that does not mean what non Catholics want it to mean.
The work of God is to believe in Jesus and if you believe in Jesus WHAT DO YOU DO?
You follow His commands and His commands are to love God and love neighbor.
Love is action, not abstract belief, feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, giving drink to the thirsty, comforting the sorrowful.....
DEEDS! GOOD WORKS!
Read Matthew 25. Read of the good servant who took was given him and multiplied it many times and the one who buried what was given him.
God wants us to rejoice in our redemption by sharing His love, compassion and forgiveness with others. If we don’t it’s like burying it away thinking that when the master comes for it, he will be pleased that we have not used it or increased it but let it languish.
We have come full circle here. Chavez believed in Jesus, the one whom God has sent. Was he saved? And if not, why not?
You don't need to do anything.
When you receive Christ, believe in His name, you become a child of God. (John 1:12).
The righteousness of Christ, IOW, HIS good works, is credited to your account. We don't NEED to do good works because when God sees us clothed in the righteousness of Christ, He sees us as having done the righteous deeds that Jesus did.
The verse about *If you love me, you will obey my commandments* is not a command but rather Him explaining what the natural outworking of loving Him will be.
It's not that we have to do good works to prove our love for Him but that those good works will just flow out of us as naturally as breathing.
If someone has to plan them and keeps tally, then it's unlikely that they are the true fruit of a truly changed life.
Lots of people will appeal to their works to save them and Jesus will send them away, saying that He never knew them.
Those sheep who He invites in were doing good works almost without even being cognizant of them.
NOW you've done it! ;^)
Your homepage may have a clue...
...likely to ignore idiots when there seems to be no hope for them.