Ephesians 2:10

We are God's workmanship, created in Christ for good works he prepared beforehand. It shows that good works are the fruit, not the root, of salvation.

Cross-references · 40

• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Col 1:10that 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;
• Heb 13:21make 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 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
• 2 Cor 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
• Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 3:17that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• 2 Tim 2:21If 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.
• Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Isa 43:21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• 1 Tim 6:18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
• Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
• Titus 3:14Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
• Heb 10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
• Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
• Titus 2:7in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
• 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• Ps 138:8Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
• Titus 3:1Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
• 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Isa 29:23But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
• 2 Th 2:17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• Matt 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• John 3:21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
• Jer 32:39–40and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
• Isa 60:21Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 5:5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
• Isa 44:21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
• 1 Tim 2:10but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
• 1 Tim 5:25In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.
• Deut 5:33You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

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