Ephesians 2:9
It is not due to obedience to Law, so that no one can boast.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 3:27What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.
Romans 9:11For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail – a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his call – Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,
Romans 11:6But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.
2 Timothy 1:9It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn call – not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,
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 →