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There's a lot of scriptures on this issue that seemingly contradict, as this thread has shown. But I think they can easily be made to fit together if you look at it this way:
1. one is not saved by works
2. the quality of your works is a reliable indicator of your salvation status
1. one is not saved by works
2. the quality of your works is a reliable indicator of your salvation status
thats fine
As long as you stop there, and do not go onto say that if that quality of works stop. or gets less. then your salvation status is in question, even though at one time, it was never in question.
There is where legalism takes its ugly head and distorts the truth and makes works a God thing, and turns it into a man thing.