Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 2:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Made Alive In Christ
9 not of works, that no one may boast; 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk. 11 Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 4:24
and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.
2 Corinthians 5:17
so that if any one is in Christ -- he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
Titus 2:14
who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
Hebrews 13:21
make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.
Psalm 100:3
Know that Jehovah He is God, He made us, and we are His, His people -- and the flock of His pasture.
Ephesians 1:4
according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
Ephesians 4:1
Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
Colossians 1:10
to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
1 Corinthians 3:9
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
2 Corinthians 9:8
and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,
Philippians 1:6
having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,
Philippians 2:13
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Colossians 3:10
and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
2 Thessalonians 2:17
comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
1 Timothy 6:18
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,
2 Timothy 2:21
if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
2 Timothy 3:17
that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.
Titus 2:7
concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
Titus 3:1
Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,
Titus 3:8
Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
Titus 3:14
and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
Hebrews 10:24
and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
1 Peter 2:12
having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
Deuteronomy 32:6
To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.
Psalm 119:3
Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.
Isaiah 19:25
In that Jehovah of Hosts did bless it, saying, 'Blessed is My people -- Egypt, And the work of My hands -- Asshur, And Mine inheritance -- Israel!'
Isaiah 29:23
For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.
Isaiah 43:21
This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.
Isaiah 44:21
Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, For My servant thou art, I formed thee, a servant to Me thou art, O Israel, thou dost not forget Me.
Isaiah 60:21
And thy people are all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified.
Isaiah 61:3
To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, 'Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
Jeremiah 31:33
For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
Jeremiah 32:39-40
and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:
John 3:21
but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
Acts 9:31
Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.
Acts 9:36
And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;
1 John 1:7
and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
Deuteronomy 5:33
in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and it is well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
Psalm 51:10
A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.
Psalm 81:13
O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Psalm 138:8
Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!
Isaiah 2:3-5
And gone have many peoples and said, 'Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
Matthew 5:16
so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
John 3:3-6
Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
Romans 8:1
There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;
Romans 8:29
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
2 Corinthians 5:5
And He who did work us to this self-same thing is God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;
Galatians 6:15
for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
Ephesians 2:2
in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
1 Timothy 2:10
but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.
1 Timothy 5:10
in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
1 Timothy 5:25
in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.
1 John 2:6
He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.