Ephesians 2:9

not by works, lest any one should boast.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

In Context

8For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

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Cross References

Romans 3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

Romans 9:11(the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,)

Romans 11:6And if the election is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.

2 Timothy 1:9who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages,

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:5-11

The Change Wrought in the Ephesians. ( a. d. 61.) 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is… Read the whole commentary →

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