Salvation is not a prise it is a gift. You run to earn a reward.
Is salvation the gift or righteousness?
Righteousness is the ability to approach God, not to be guilty, to be clean, pure and Holy.
17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:17
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord
Rom 6:23
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--
9 not by works, so that no one can boast
Eph 2:8-9
The gift is righteousness, eternal life, faith
Interestingly salvation and gift are not put together. Faith brings belief. Belief is counted as righteousness.
Salvation is not a gift, it is as a result of belief, and belief comes from faith.
I have the faith to believe.
22 But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
Gal 3:22
A gift of faith can be acted on so one believes or chooses to have unbelief.
Salvation is not a gift, it is a result of belief.