Paul wrote about repentance from dead works in Hebrews 6:1. Some new versions corrupt that and thus support a works based salvation.

[SavedByTheLord]

Although you have a valid point here with respect to the NIV, which is becoming increasingly unreliable as a translation, the matter is that nearly all other translations retain "dead / lifeless works." It is only the NIV and a small numbers of others (e.g. the New Living Translation) that have changed the translation significantly.

There are more than just the NIV and the NLT.
The NWT and the TPT and even more yet.