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

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A.T. Robertson

A.T. Robertson

A.T.Robertson

19th Century
Southern Baptist
19th Century

Workmanship (ποιημα). Old word from ποιεω with the ending -ματ meaning result. In N.T. only here and Re 1:20.

Creat…

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

For we are his workmanship. We are his makingpoihma. That is, we are created or formed by him, not on…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

We are his workmanship.—This verse, on the contrary, is unique and remarkable, characteristic of the idea with which this Epistle …

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship,

No good person can boast of their works, because those works a…

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor'sBible Commentary

20th Century
20th Century

This verse is the outcome of the whole proce . It shows what salvation is intended for: to produce the good works that attest its reality. While wo…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

For we are his work. By setting aside the contrary assumption, he proves his statement that by grace we are saved — that we have …

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

For we are his workmanship
Not as men only, but as Christians; not as creatures merely, but as new creatures; the wo…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespa es and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it evokes an awfu…

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