Charles Spurgeon Commentary Ephesians 2:10

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them." — Ephesians 2:10 (ASV)

Unto Good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

God has decreed that he will have a holy people. This is his purpose, his ordinance, to which he will always stand. He will make it good. He will make sinful people holy, and disobedient people obedient to the faith.

Created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

This is the great purpose of our election; we are elected that we may be holy, and ordained that we may walk in good works—who can rightly quarrel with such a divine purpose as this?

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus

Nothing without Christ Jesus, you see. The mark of the pierced hand is on everything: We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.

For we are his workmanship,

If we have anything good in us, it was all made by him.

For we are his workmanship,

Salvation cannot be of works, for if we have any good works, it is because we are God's workmanship.

For we are his workmanship,

If there is any good thing in us, he put it there. It is not for us to boast. It is for him to boast if he pleases.