Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.
New American Standard Bible
For we are His workmanship,
King James Version
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Holman Bible
For we are His creation, created
International Standard Version
For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.
A Conservative Version
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.
American Standard Version
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Amplified
For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].
An Understandable Version
For we [Christians] are the product of God's workmanship, [re-] created in [fellowship with] Christ Jesus for [the purpose of] doing good deeds. God had previously determined that this should be our practice.
Anderson New Testament
For we are his workman ship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.
Bible in Basic English
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
Common New Testament
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we would walk in them.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.
Darby Translation
For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
Godbey New Testament
for we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.
Goodspeed New Testament
For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
John Wesley New Testament
For we are his workmanship, created through Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had before prepared, that we might walk in them.
Julia Smith Translation
For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,
King James 2000
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.
Modern King James verseion
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.
Moffatt New Testament
God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.
Montgomery New Testament
for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.
NET Bible
For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.
New Heart English Bible
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Noyes New Testament
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.
Sawyer New Testament
for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.
The Emphasized Bible
His, in fact we are - his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon a footing of good works, which God prepared beforehand, that, therein, we might walk.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.
Webster
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Weymouth New Testament
For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.
World English Bible
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Worrell New Testament
for we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.
Worsley New Testament
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God before prepared us, that we might walk in them.
Youngs Literal Translation
for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
Themes
Atonement » Made by jesus » Divinely ordained
Character » Of saints » New creatures
Character of saints » New creatures
Creation » Illustrative of » New Birth
Election » Of saints, is » To good works
Faith/faithfulness » What is achieved through and by faith
Giving and gifts » The gift of God
New Birth » Described as » A new creation
Newness » Who is a new creature
Ordination » What has been ordained
Redemption » They who partake of » Are zealous of good works
Topics
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Devotionals
Devotionals about Ephesians 2:10
Devotionals containing Ephesians 2:10
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 2:10
Images Ephesians 2:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Made Alive In Christ
9 It is not the result of what anyone can do, so that no one can boast of it. 10 For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do. 11 So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands.
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.
2 Corinthians 5:17
For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.
Titus 2:14
who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.
Hebrews 13:21
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.
Ephesians 1:4
Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.
Ephesians 4:1
So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,
Colossians 1:10
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;
1 Corinthians 3:9
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.
2 Corinthians 9:8
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;
Philippians 1:6
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.
Philippians 2:13
for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new self which is in the process of being made new in the likeness of its Creator, so that you may attain a perfect knowledge of Him.
2 Thessalonians 2:17
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.
1 Timothy 6:18
charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,
2 Timothy 2:21
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.
2 Timothy 3:17
so that the man of God may be perfectly fit, thoroughly equipped for every good enterprise.
Titus 2:7
In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching,
Titus 3:1
Constantly remind people to submit to and obey the rulers who have authority over them, so as to be ready for any good enterprise,
Titus 3:8
It is a message to be trusted, and I want you to be emphatic about these things, so that those who believe in God may be careful to take the lead in doing good. These things are right and render service to mankind.
Titus 3:14
Our people too must set examples of doing good, so as to meet the necessary demands and not to live unfruitful lives.
Hebrews 10:24
Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.
1 Peter 2:12
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.
John 3:21
But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."
Acts 9:31
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.
Acts 9:36
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.
1 John 1:7
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.
Matthew 5:16
Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.
John 3:3-6
Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."
Romans 8:1
So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:29
For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;
2 Corinthians 5:5
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.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision nor the lack of it has any value, but only a new creation.
Ephesians 2:2
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,
1 Timothy 2:10
but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.
1 Timothy 5:10
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.
1 Timothy 5:25
Good deeds, too, are usually very evident, and if they are not, they cannot be completely concealed.
1 John 2:6
Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.