for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,Ephesians 2:8 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFor by grace are ye saved, through faith - As ye are now brought into a state of salvation, your sins being all blotted out, and you made partakers of the Holy Spirit; and, having a hope full of immortality, you must not attribute this to any works or merit of yours; for when this Gospel reached you, you were all found dead in trespasses and dead in sins; therefore it was God's free mercy to you, manifested through Christ, in whom ye were commanded to believe; and, having believed by the power of the Holy Spirit, ye received, and were sealed by, the Holy Spirit of promise; so that this salvation is in no sense of yourselves, but is the free gift of God; and not of any kind of works; so that no man can boast as having wrought out his own salvation, or even contributed any thing towards it. By grace arc ye saved, through faith in Christ. This is a true doctrine, and continues to be essential to the salvation of man to the end of the world.
But whether are we to understand, faith or salvation as being the gift of God? This question is answered by the Greek text: τῃ γαρ χαριτι εστε σεσωσμενοι δια της πιστεως· και τουτο ουκ εξ ὑμων· Θεου το δωρον, ουκ εξ εργων· ἱνα μη τις καυχησηται· "By this grace ye are saved through faith; and This (τουτο, this salvation) not of you; it is the gift of God, not of works: so that no one can boast." "The relative τουτο, this, which is in the neuter gender, cannot stand for πιστις, faith, which is the feminine; but it has the whole sentence that goes before for its antecedent." But it may be asked: Is not faith the gift of God? Yes, as to the grace by which it is produced; but the grace or power to believe, and the act of believing, are two different things. Without the grace or power to believe no man ever did or can believe; but with that power the act of faith is a man's own. God never believes for any man, no more than he repents for him: the penitent, through this grace enabling him, believes for himself: nor does he believe necessarily, or impulsively when he has that power; the power to believe may be present long before it is exercised, else, why the solemn warnings with which we meet every where in the word of God, and threatenings against those who do not believe? Is not this a proof that such persons have the power but do not use it? They believe not, and therefore are not established. This, therefore, is the true state of the case: God gives the power, man uses the power thus given, and brings glory to God: without the power no man can believe; with it, any man may.
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Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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Mark 16:16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.
Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
John 3:14-18,36 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up...
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life...
John 6:27-29,35,40 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you...
Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 15:7-9 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said to them, Men and brothers...
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house.
Romans 3:22-26 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and on all them that believe: for there is no difference...
Romans 4:5,16 But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness...
Romans 10:9,10 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead...
Galatians 3:14,22 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ...
1 John 5:10-12 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar...
that.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you...
John 1:12,13 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name...
John 6:37,44,65 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out...
Acts 14:27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them...
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us...
Romans 10:14,17 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard...
Philippians 1:29 For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God...
James 1:16-18 Do not err, my beloved brothers...
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