Ephesians 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Luke 1:75

Bible References

We are

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.

Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss.

For I am certain of this very thing, that He who began the good work in you will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

perfectly fit you to do His will, He Himself, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing through you what is pleasing to Him. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Good

Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

At Joppa there was a woman, a disciple, whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek means Dorcas, that is, Gazelle. She had filled her life with good deeds and works of charity, which she was always doing.

And God is able to make your every spiritual blessing overflow for you, so that you will always have in every situation an entire sufficiency and so overflow for every good cause;

so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.

must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.

charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,

So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be an instrument for honorable uses, consecrated, useful for the Master, and ready for any good service.

so that the man of God may be perfectly fit, thoroughly equipped for every good enterprise.

In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

Constantly remind people to submit to and obey the rulers who have authority over them, so as to be ready for any good enterprise,

Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.

perfectly fit you to do His will, He Himself, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing through you what is pleasing to Him. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

Walk

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, and as it continued to be built up spiritually and to live in reverence for the Lord, it continued to increase in numbers through the encouragement that the Holy Spirit gave.

So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

But if we continue to live in the light, just as He is in the light, we have unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son continues to cleanse us from every sin.

Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.

General references

in holiness and uprightness In His own presence all our days.