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Ephesians 2:10
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KJ21
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath beforehand ordained, that we should walk in them.
ASV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
AMP
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].
AMPC
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].
BRG
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
CSB
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
CSBA
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
CEB
Instead, we are God’s accomplishment, created in Christ Jesus to do good things. God planned for these good things to be the way that we live our lives.
CJB
For we are of God’s making, created in union with the Messiah Yeshua for a life of good actions already prepared by God for us to do.
CEV
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.
DARBY
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.
DLNT
For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared-beforehand in order that we might walk in them.
DRA
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.
ERV
God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do.
EASY
It is God who has worked in us to make us what we are. He has given us a new life because we are united with Christ Jesus. He saved us so that now we can do good things in our lives. Those are good things that he has already prepared for us to do.
EHV
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance so that we would walk in them.
ESV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
ESVUK
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
EXB
·God has made us what we are [L For we are his handiwork/workmanship/work of art]. In Christ Jesus, God ·made [created] us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.
GNV
For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ordained, that we should walk in them.
GW
God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do.
GNT
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.
HCSB
For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.
ICB
God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would do good works. God had planned in advance those good works for us. He had planned for us to live our lives doing them.
ISV
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.
PHILLIPS
But even though we were dead in our sins God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, gave us life together with Christ—it is, remember, by grace and not by achievement that you are saved—and has lifted us right out of the old life to take our place with him in Christ in the Heavens. Thus he shows for all time the tremendous generosity of the grace and kindness he has expressed towards us in Christ Jesus. It was nothing you could or did achieve—it was God’s gift to you. No one can pride himself upon earning the love of God. The fact is that what we are we owe to the hand of God upon us. We are born afresh in Christ, and born to do those good deeds which God planned for us to do.
JUB
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.
KJV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
AKJV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
LSB
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
LEB
For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.
TLB
It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.
MSG
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
MEV
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we should walk in them.
MOUNCE
For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance · that we should do them.
NOG
God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Yeshua to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do.
NABRE
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.
NASB
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
NASB1995
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
NCB
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works that God had prepared for us to do.
NCV
God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.
NET
For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
NIRV
We are God’s creation. He created us to belong to Christ Jesus. Now we can do good works. Long ago God prepared these works for us to do.
NIV
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
NIVUK
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
NKJV
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
NLV
We are His work. He has made us to belong to Christ Jesus so we can work for Him. He planned that we should do this.
NLT
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
NMB
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, to which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.
NRSVA
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.
NRSVACE
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.
NRSVCE
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.
NRSVUE
For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.
NTFE
This is the explanation: God has made us what we are. God has created us in Messiah Jesus for the good works that he prepared, ahead of time, as the road we must travel.
OJB
For we are His masterpiece, having been created in Moshiach Yehoshua for ma’asim tovim, which Hashem prepared beforehand, that the derech of our halakhah should be in them.[YESHAYAH 29:23; 42:7; 60:21;]
RGT
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works; which God has ordained, so that we would walk in them.
RSV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
RSVCE
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
TLV
For we are His workmanship—created in Messiah Yeshua for good deeds, which God prepared beforehand so we might walk in them.
VOICE
For we are the product of His hand, heaven’s poetry etched on lives, created in the Anointed, Jesus, to accomplish the good works God arranged long ago.
WEB
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
WE
God has made us. In Jesus Christ God made us so that we can do good things. He planned that we should live that way.
WYC
For we be the making of him, made of nought in Christ Jesus, in good works, which God hath ordained, that we go in those works [that God made ready before, that in them we go].
YLT
for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
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