Allow me to share with you something else from the Apostle.
“10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.”
(1 Corinthians 3)
It seems pretty clear here that it is ONLY the foundation in Christ that offers salvation.
Works are important, and works affect eternal life, but it is Jesus who saves, NOT works. JESUS is the foundation, and only he. Not our own works.
As I said in my first post, you seem to think that Protestants are antinomians, and you are posting passages about the importance of obedience to God’s Law.
Whereas the vast majority of Protestants love and want to obey God’s Law, do good deeds, et cetera. So why are you trying to argue against me in that?
And while we’re at it, ‘works’ and ‘works of the Law’ are the same thing. Paul uses them as synonyms, and if you insist I can come up with chapter and verse about salvation coming NOT from works.
It is interesting to compare that passage in Corinthians with Romans. Both stress the works, the former suggesting some purification by fire, as it were, for some and the latter adamant that God will render to every man according to his deeds, eternal life or wrath.