Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 2:9
Not by works — Neither this faith nor this salvation is owing to any works you ever did, will, or can do.
Not by works — Neither this faith nor this salvation is owing to any works you ever did, will, or can do.
NOT OF WORKS - see the notes at Romans 3:20, Romans 3:27....
2. THE PRODUCTION OF THE MASTERWORK AND ITS DESTINY CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. What we are by nature (Ephesians 2:1)_ 2. What God does--rich in mercy (Ephesians 2:4) 3. The destiny of the masterwork (Ephe...
CHRISTIANS ARE RAISED AND EXALTED IN THE RISEN AND EXALTED CHRIST BY GOD'S FREE GRACE AND GIFT. The recipients of the letter, like other people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and t...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which once you walked, living life in the way in which this present age of this world lives it, living life as the ruler of...
Although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in mercy and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made us alive in Jesus Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses (i...
LEST ANY MAN. in order that (Greek. _hina)_ no (Greek. _me.)_ one (Greek. _tis._ App-123.) BOAST. See Romans 2:17....
_lest any_man _should boast_ Lit., ANY ONE; there is no emphasis on "man." For the thought, cp. Romans 3:27, (and see Ephesians 4:2); 1 Corinthians 1:29;...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΞ ἜΡΓΩΝ. Here the thought reverts to the main idea, the gift of salvation. It is in no sense earned by our conformity to the requirements whether of the Law or the Gospel, cf. Romans 1-4. ἽΝΑ Μ...
Ephesians 1:15 to Ephesians 2:10. THANKSGIVING PASSING INTO PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL INSIGHT This section corresponds to the section of thanksgiving which in all St Paul’s Epistles except Gal., 1 Tim. and...
ΈΡΓΩΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΈΡΓΟΝ (G2041) работа, дело. _Gen._ источника: "не нашими делами" ΚΑΥΧΉΣΗΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΥΧΆΟΜΑΙ (G2744) хвалиться, хвастаться. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) в отр. _прид....
DISCOURSE: 2099 SALVATION BY GRACE NOT HOSTILE TO GOOD WORKS Ephesians 2:8. _By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should...
LEST ANY MAN— _That no one._...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 2:1-10) C. Once dead, now alive with Christ. Ephesians 2:1-10. 1. Before conversion, dead through trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1-3. a.
(2:9) There is no sense in which our faith can be deemed a "work" of man. Nor can anything, done by anyone, be construed as meriting salvation as a response from God. Thus, there is no basis for boast...
Not of works, lest any man should boast. NOT OF WORKS. This clause stands in contrast to "by grace" (Romans 4:4; ). LEST - Greek, 'that no man should boast' (;...
1 Compare the condition of the two classes with that of the individual believer in Rom_6:2. Such as have "died to sin" "together with Christ", "are vivified together with Him", and "are reckoning them...
GENTILES AND JEWS ARE NOW ONE IN CHIRST 1-10. Further illustration of God'S power. He raised both Gentiles and Jews from the death of sin and exalted them to Christ's side....
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-10 ~ *SALVATION BY *GRACE 2:1-3 ~ OUR PAST LIFE V1 In past days, you were *spiritually dead be...
(1_ b._) Ephesians 2:8 (taking up and working out the parenthetical “by grace ye are saved” of Ephesians 2:5) form an instructive link of connection between these Epistles and those of the earlier gro...
NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST. — In this verse we have the echo of the past Judaising controversy; it sums up briefly the whole argument of Romans 3:27 to Romans 4:25. There is a similar rem...
CHAPTER 8 SAVED FOR AN END Ephesians 2:7 The plan which God has formed for men in Christ is of great dimensions every way, -in its length no less than in its breadth and height. He "raised us up and...
A new paragraph begins at this point. This is denied indeed by some, who would connect the καὶ ὑμᾶς of Ephesians 2:1 immediately with the ἡμᾶς τοὺς πιστεύοντας of Ephesians 1:19 (Knatchbull), the ἐνήρ...
οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων, ἵνα μή τις καυχήσηται : _not of works, that no one should glory_. The OT protest against glorying in any but the Lord and the prophet's jealousy for the honour of God (Jeremiah 9:23-24;...
WHAT GRACE HAS DONE Ephesians 2:1 Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of a moving picture. The dea...
The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God,...
Saved By Grace Notice salvation is not by grace, nor faith alone. There is no way man could earn his salvation, so it is said here to be by the unmerited favor of God. God's grace is extended to all m...
(9) Not of works, lest any man should boast. (9) He specifically and completely takes away from our works the praise of justification, seeing that the good works themselves are the effects of grace i...
_Not of works, as of our own growth, or from ourselves: but as from the grace of God. (Challoner)_...
(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_GOD’S WORKMANSHIP_ ‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ...
Grace That Unifies I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in our study of Chapter one of Ephesians, Paul told us in verse 6 that Jesus has "made us accepted in the beloved." 1. And we talked about the Greek...
9._Not of works. _Instead of what he had said, that their salvation is of grace, he now affirms, that “it is the gift of God.” (124) Instead of what he had said, _“ _Not of yourselves,_” _he now says,...
In Chapter 2 [4] the operation of the power of God on earth, for the purpose of bringing souls into the enjoyment of their heavenly privileges, and thus of forming the assembly here below, is presente...
NOT OF WORKS,.... Of any kind, moral or ceremonial, before or after conversion, done without faith or in it, nor of these in any sense; works are neither the moving causes, nor the procuring causes, n...
Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ver. 9. _Lest any man should boast_] As that fool did that said, _Caelum gratis non accipiam, _ I will not have heaven but at a rate. (Vega.) _Non sic Deos co...
_That in the ages to come_ As if he had said, His great design in doing all this for us is, that in all succeeding ages, under the dispensation of the gospel, _he might show_ Might demonstrate and dis...
NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST....
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
BELIEVERS CHANGED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH (vs.1-10) The first three verse of chapter 2 go back to consider the state and circumstances from which the Ephesians had been brought, the same sad state to...
CHAPTER 2 Before we can fully understand the _________ we have in Christ, we must understand our condition of our __________ without Christ. God has ____________ us. This word means that God has mad...
“NOT OF WORKS, THAT NO MAN SHOULD GLORY” “Not of works”: “Not won by works” (Con). “It has not been earned” (Gspd). “No amount of good works can make up for our evil works. Keeping the law most of th...
1-10 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 gives an awful feeling. A never-dying spirit is now fled, an...
NOT OF WORKS; any works whatever, and not only works of the ceremonial law: for if they only were excluded, the opposition between God and man, grace and works, were not right, which yet we find so of...
Ephesians 2:9 not G3756 of G1537 works G2041 lest G3363 anyone G5100 boast G2744 (G5667)...
‘For by grace you are those who are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' This links back to ‘in Christ Jesus'. We are in t...
1. _Redemption in Christ as Deliverance from Death through a New Creation._ The Apostle applies to his readers the great truths set forth in chap. 1, having in mind ‘the mighty working of the Father,...
Ephesians 2:9. NOT OF WORKS. This resumes the negative side, asserting that salvation does not proceed from works, as a meritorious ground. Comp. on Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16, etc. It is obvious tha...
THAT NO MAN SHOULD GLORY (ινα μη τις καυχησητα). Negative final clause (ινα μη) with first aorist middle subjunctive of καυχαομα. It is all of God's grace....
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:_ These were your grave clothes. You were wrapped up in them. Nay, this was your sarcophagus. You were shut up in it, a...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ What a great change, then, has taken place in the people of God! It is described as being similar to the resurrection...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ Then you owe your very life to him. You were dead, you were like a corrupt carcass, but his life has been breathed in...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_ Is it so? Can anyone lay his hand on your shoulder, and say right into your ear, «You hath he quickened»? If so, why this deadness of spirit? Why this worl...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_ You, who were by nature dead are now made alive unto God by the holy Spirit. If you had nothing else to think of, all day long, but just these five words,...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you he hath quickened._ Is it so? Could the apostle say that to you, and to me? Ephesians 2:1. _Who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ Look back to what you used to be, to the h...
CONTENTS: Method of Gentile salvation. Jew and Gentile made one body in Christ, a habitation of God through the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: A state of sin apart from Christ, is a sta...
Ephesians 2:1. _You hath he quickened._ The word quickened is not in the Greek, but the old Latin version repeats it here from the fifth verse, presuming it to be implied. It reads well without it, th...
THERE IS NOTHING. "Your salvation did not come through the rites of The Law nor through a knowledge of secrets and mysteries. It isn't the result of your own efforts, therefore there is nothing here t...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:9 Salvation is not by WORKS. If it were, then those who are saved would get the glory. CREATED... FOR GOOD WORKS. Salvation is not based on works, but the good works Chri...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith. This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 2:4. BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY.—“Unto all that call upon Him” (Romans 10:12). “He hath shut up all into disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all”...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 2:1 SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE EPHESIANS. This passage corresponds to Genesis 1:1. It is a history of creation, and we note the same great stages. 1. C
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter. Paul is going to talk about someone tonight...very interesting. You! Well, at least you are interested in the subject. For many of you...
1 Corinthians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:9; Romans 11:6; Romans 3:20; Roman
A GOD-PLANNED LIFE Ephesians 2:8; _Romans 12:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read of Epaphras that he prayed for the saints that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. The will of G...
GRACE IN OPERATION Ephesians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in our sins....