AC 2116 - How We Live

AC 2116 [2-3]

. . . those who have meditated and practiced
acts of hatred, of revenge, of cruelty, and of adultery,
and who thereby have lived in no charity,
the life they have acquired in doing so
awaits them after death,
indeed, so do all things of that life
both in general and in particular,
which return in succession;
and from this comes their torment in hell.

But with those who have lived
in love to the Lord and in charity toward the neighbor,
their evils of life also all remain,
but they are tempered by the goods
which during their life in the world
they have received from the Lord
by means of a life of charity;
and thereby they are uplifted into heaven,
indeed, are withheld from the evils
which they have with them,
so that these do not appear.
Those who in the other life
doubt their having evils with them,
because the evils do not appear,
are let into them until they know
that the case is really so,
and then are again uplifted into heaven. 

This then is what is meant by being justified;
for in this way men come to acknowledge
not their own righteousness,
but that of the Lord.
As to its being said that those are saved who have faith --
this is true;
but in the Word by "faith"
nothing else is meant than love to the Lord
and charity toward the neighbor,
and thus a life from these loves.