Ephesians 2:9 Cross References - Riverside

⁹ not of works, that no one may boast.

²⁰ Therefore by works of the Law no human being will be pronounced righteous before him. For through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

²⁷ Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? That of works? No, but by the law of faith. ²⁸ For we reason that a man is pronounced righteous by faith aside from works of law.

² For if Abraham was pronounced righteous because of works, he had something to boast of. But he had nothing before God;

¹¹ though the same man was father of both children and they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might stand, not according to their works, but according to his call,

¹⁶ So then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace.

²⁹ that no human being may boast in God's presence. ³⁰ By God's act you are in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God and righteousness and holiness and deliverance, ³¹ so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

⁹ It is he who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our deeds but according to his own purpose and grace, given to us in Christ Jesus ages ago

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, ⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit