Ephesians 2:10 (various English translations)
New International Version (©1984):
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
New Living Translation (©2007):
For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
English Standard Version (©2001):
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
New American Standard Bible (©1995):
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
International Standard Version (©2008):
For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to do good works that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.
GOD'S WORD¨ Translation (©1995):
God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do.
King James Bible (1611):
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
American King James Version:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
American Standard Version:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Bible in Basic English:
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
Douay-Rheims Bible (1582):
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.
Darby Bible Translation:
For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
English Revised Version:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Webster's Bible Translation:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Weymouth New Testament:
For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.
World English Bible:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Young's Literal Translation:
for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
Geneva Bible (1560):
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Wicliffe Bible (ca. 1385): (Middle English rendered using a modern font)
for we ben the makynge of hym made of nouØt in crist ihesus in good werkis whiche god hath ordeyned : that we go in tho werkis/
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