Ephesians 2:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Eph 2:5 : 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
  • Rom 3:22-26 : 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; 25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
  • Acts 16:31 : 31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • John 6:37 : 37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
  • John 6:44 : 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
  • Luke 7:50 : 50 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
  • John 5:24 : 24 "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 6:27-29 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." 28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
  • John 3:36 : 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
  • John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • John 6:35 : 35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
  • John 6:65 : 65 He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
  • John 3:14-18 : 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • Col 2:12 : 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
  • Rom 10:17 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  • 1 John 5:10-12 : 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
  • 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
  • Eph 1:19 : 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
  • Rom 10:14 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
  • Rom 4:5 : 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
  • John 6:40 : 40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
  • Acts 15:7-9 : 7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
  • Phil 1:29 : 29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Acts 16:14 : 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 2:9-10
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    9not of works, that no one would boast.

    10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  • Titus 3:4-7
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    4But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

    5not 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,

    6which he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

    7that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

  • Eph 2:4-5
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

    5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • 7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  • 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

  • 6And 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.

  • 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

  • 9who 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,

  • 16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of 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.

  • Eph 1:6-7
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    6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

    7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

  • Rom 5:1-2
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    1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

    2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

  • 1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • 7But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

  • 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Eph 3:7-8
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    7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

    8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

  • 10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

    5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • 11But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus,{TR adds "Christ"} just as they are."

  • Eph 1:13-14
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    13in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Gospel of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

    14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

  • 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • 30But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • 5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

  • 14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • 4I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

  • 2if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

  • 4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • 17For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • 15But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

  • 14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

  • 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 9For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 3seeing 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;

  • 2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

  • 13But 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;

  • 24You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.