Ephesians 2:10
Context2:10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them. 1
Ephesians 4:25
Context4:25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, 2 for we are members of one another.
Ephesians 5:27
Context5:27 so that he 3 may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. 4
1 tn Grk “so that we might walk in them” (or “by them”).
sn So that we may do them. Before the devil began to control our walk in sin and among sinful people, God had already planned good works for us to do.
2 sn A quotation from Zech 8:16.
3 tn The use of the pronoun αὐτός (autos) is intensive and focuses attention on Christ as the one who has made the church glorious.
4 tn Grk “but in order that it may be holy and blameless.”