THINKING ABOUT WORKS-BASED SALVATION IN ADDITION TO "BELIEVING"

⁵Thus says the LORD:

            “Cursed is the man who trusts in man

                        and makes flesh his strength,

                        whose heart turns away from the LORD.

            ⁶He is like a shrub in the desert,

                        and shall not see any good come.

            He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,

                        in an uninhabited salt land.  (Jeremiah 17:5-6 ESV)