Noun
perseverance of the saints (uncountable)
(theology) A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that true believers in Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross (the "saints") cannot relapse and are predestined to salvation.
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end. Charles Spurgeon