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FIND FOCUS with an ad-free experience with Bible Gateway Plus. Try it free today! 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016.
And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece.
The first is found in verses 8 and 9, the second in verse 10. The first concentrates on the cause of our salvation; the second on its effects. Whether in its cause or in its effects, salvation is all of God, and all of grace. In Ephesians 2:8 and 9 Paul contends that salvation is not of man’s doing, but of God’s.
Practical Bible study on Ephesians 2 with commentary, application, and discover questions. Seeking rich understanding and life transformation.
Ephesians 2:10 The metal is molten as it runs out of the blast furnace, but it soon cools and hardens. Paul’s teaching about salvation by grace and by faith came in a hot stream from his heart, but to this generation his words are apt to sound coldly, and hardly theological.
(Ephesians 2:8-10) A summing up of God’s work of individual reconciliation. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
