Salvation is the gift of deliverance from the consequences of sin and Satan's work to live a new living in Christ.
Romans 3:23 days, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God" (KJV).
In order to have this gift, every sinner is required to believe in Christ as the Lord and Son of God (Mark 16:16); to repent from sins (Acts 17:30); to confess Jesus as the Lord and Son of God (Romans 10:9-10); to be immersed in water (Acts 2:38). It's at the point of baptism that one is buried with Christ to have the gift of salvation freely offered in the death of Christ.
Romans 6:3 says, "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:" (KJV)
