10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)Here the apostle begins his account of the glorious change that was wrought in them by converting grace, where observe, I. By whom, and in what manner, it was brought about and effected. 1. Negatively: Not of yourselves , Eph. 2:8. Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not the mere product of any natural abilities, nor of any merit of our own: Not of works, lest any man should…
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