Ephesians 2:10
Good News Translation
God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.

New Revised Standard Version
For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

Contemporary English Version
God planned for us to do good things and to live as he has always wanted us to live. This is why he sent Christ to make us what we are.

New American Bible
For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

we are.

Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 19:25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.

Isaiah 29:23 But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel:

Isaiah 43:21 This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise.

Isaiah 44:21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not.

Isaiah 60:21 And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:39,40 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them. . . .

John 3:3-6,21 Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

2 Corinthians 5:5,17 Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit, . . .

Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

created.

Ephesians 4:24 And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

Psalm 51:10 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

2 Corinthians 5:17 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Colossians 3:10 And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

good.

Matthew 5:16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Acts 9:36 And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work,

Colossians 1:10 That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:

2 Thessalonians 2:17 Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.

1 Timothy 2:10 But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

1 Timothy 5:10,25 Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work. . . .

1 Timothy 6:18 To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to communicate to others,

2 Timothy 2:21 If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.

2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

Titus 2:7,14 In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity, . . .

Titus 3:1,8,14 Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work. . . .

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

which.

Ephesians 1:4 As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

ordained.

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

Deuteronomy 5:33 But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession.

Psalm 81:13 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

Psalm 119:3 For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.

Isaiah 2:3-5 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. . . .

Acts 9:31 Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.

Romans 8:1 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

Context
Alive with Christ
9Not of works, that no man may glory. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. 11For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles is the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands:…
Cross References
Psalm 51:10
Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Isaiah 19:25
Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.

Isaiah 29:23
But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel:

Isaiah 43:7
And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him.

Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:4
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Ephesians 2:6
And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:15
Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace

Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

Colossians 3:10
And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

2 Timothy 2:21
If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.

Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

Ephesians 2:9
Top of Page
Top of Page