Ephesians 2:9

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

that no flesh should boast before God.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.