Ephesians 2:10

WEB

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

KJV

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

BSB

¹⁰For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

FBV

¹⁰We're the product of what God does, created in Christ Jesus to do good, which God already planned that we should do.

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Extra References

Philippians 2:13

¹³For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Colossians 1:10

¹⁰that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Hebrews 13:21

²¹make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 5:17

¹⁷Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,^[+] all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 9:8

⁸And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Ephesians 4:24

²⁴and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Philippians 1:6

⁶being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:17

¹⁷that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Ephesians 4:1

¹I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

2 Timothy 2:21

²¹If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.