Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:33All of you shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that all of you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that all of you may prolong your days in the land which all of you shall possess.
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 100:3Know all of you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 138:8The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of yours own hands.
Isaiah 19:25Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah 43:21This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
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 →