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I don’t know about “salvation”, but according to Romans 2:6-9, what you do in life, aka “works” or “deeds”, is of critical importance.
Who (God) will render to every man according to his deeds:
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
I tell Him what I believe, but God can actually see what I believe just by watching what I choose do and how I choose do it.
By my works, He knows me. I hope my words and works are in agreement with each other and with Him, or close enough, or I really am doomed!

You should have continued on:

Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

And then,

Jas_2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

I'd say by that, you're probably doomed...

What many don't seem to get is that early on in the ministry, Jesus came only to the Jews...He was to be THEIR Messiah...There was no Gentile church...It was to be a Jewish church...And those people were still under the law...

When those Jews rejected Jesus, and killed him, he was resurrected and came back because he still had not given up on his people...He set out to do something to draw them near, to make them jealous...

Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

And the way he did this was to offer to Gentiles, the heathen of the earth the same thing he offered his chosen Jews, but even better things...He would give those Gentiles everything WITHOUT the works of the law by giving each man/woman Grace (that is, unmerited favor)...

Yet to punish the Jews, he would blind them to what he was doing to a large degree til he accomplished his mission, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled...

Rom 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Rom 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Rom 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Rom 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Rom 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

When this started happening, from going from Jews to Gentiles and from being under the law to under Grace, it required a transition period...This transition period is recorded n the book of Acts and some others and ends in the time of the scriptures you posted in Romans 2...Those people in Romans 2 were still under the law...So wander on down to Romans Chapter 3...

Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

The transition is now complete...We are fully under Grace and not the law...

Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Quite a contrast from Chapter 2, eh???

And of course one has to read around those scriptures I posted to get the entire context but NO, you are not doomed if you put your full faith in Jesus Christ that he has done it ALL for you...

Thanks for taking the time to post all of those quotes!

Doing such things is almost always worth the time, even if we are the only ones who benefit from the effort and research!

I am a believer in Jesus, His Father and the Holy Spirit, too!

I hope my acts throughout each day offer support for this statement.

I am also a wretched sinner who is more prone to sinning than walking in His Footsteps.

I know my acts each day throughout my life provide support for this statement.

I work to be more aware of His Commandments, but I am grateful for His Mercy and I ask Him to have mercy on me, the sinner, quite often.

He may know my heart, but it is by my actions that He, the rest of the world and I have some verification, too.

Jonah was required to act. His actions in refusal said a lot about his heart, as did his eventual capitulation.

Many of my acts are indicative of my struggle with the spirit of evil, which I’ve read, are

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Many of my acts are indicative of my struggle with the spirit of evil, which I’ve read, are ...

... “a spirit of lethargy, apathy, rebellion, relentless pride that made you to apostatize, keeping you away from Me and closer to Death!”

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