Ephesians 2:10

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Ephesians 2:10

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Summary

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

We are

Good

Walk

General references

Isaiah 41:20

Luke 1:75

Bible References

We are

“Do you thus repay the Lord,

O foolish and unwise people?

Is not He your Father who has bought you?

He has made you and established you.

Know that the Lord

Himself is God;

It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;

Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst,
They will sanctify My name;
Indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
And will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

“The people whom I formed for Myself

Will declare My praise.

“Remember these things, O Jacob,
And Israel, for you are My servant;
I have formed you, you are My servant,
O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me.

“Then all your people will be righteous;
They will possess the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.

To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called

oaks of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s

field, God’s building.

Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Good

Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,

to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

having a reputation for good works; and if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has assisted those in distress, and if she has devoted herself to every good work.

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified,

Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Walk

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

“Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!

They also do no unrighteousness;
They walk in His ways.

And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.

General references

That they may see and recognize,
And consider and gain insight as well,
That the hand of the Lord has done this,
And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.