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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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You Are God's Masterpiece
Commentators emphasize that the word "workmanship" (from the Greek "poiēma," where we get "poem") signifies a new spiritual creation. You are not just forgiven but fundamentally remade by God. Scholars like Calvin and Spurgeon stress that because any goodness in us is God's work, all boasting is eliminated, leaving only room for gratitude.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For we are his workmanship. We are his making—poihma. That is, we are created or formed by him, not on…
Workmanship (ποιημα). Old word from ποιεω with the ending -ματ meaning result. In N.T. only here and Re 1:20.
Creat…
19th Century
Anglican
We are his workmanship.—This verse, on the contrary, is unique and remarkable, characteristic of the idea with which this Epistle …
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Baptist
For we are his workmanship,
If we have anything good in us, it was all made by him.
This verse is the outcome of the whole process. It shows what salvation is intended for: to produce the good works that attest its reality. While w…
16th Century
Protestant
For we are his work. By setting aside the contrary assumption, he proves his statement that by grace we are saved — that we have …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For we are his workmanship Not as men only, but as Christians; not as creatures merely, but as new creatures; the wo…
Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it evokes an awf…
