Verse 8 What amazing grace

This is #6 on the google list and #11 and 28 on the biblegateway.com and is highlighted in the 'Hands On' Bible.

Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

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John 4:10
Jesus answered her (a Samaritan woman), “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Romans 3:28
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

2 Timothy 1:9
who (God) saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Titus 3:5
He (God our Saviour) saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

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It is by grace that one becomes a Christian and it is by grace that one lives the Christian life
Kay Arthur, Founder, Precept Ministries

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The relationship between faith and works is one that can be easily misunderstood. If it is works, or our salvation is God's reward for the deeds we do, it can't possibly be a gift. Also in Heaven we'd all be comparing notes as to how we got there. But works from verse 10 is the result of the fact we are saved, and what God has placed for us to do in advance.
There is a small but key word, been, our salvation is past history. I will go back to verse 5 to show this,

Ephesians 2:5-6
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

And is all tied up with that word, 'finished', which Jesus uttered on the cross. A declaration that our sins are once and for all paid for, and will be never brought up again. I will conclude with the words of Paul in the letter to the Colossians

Colossians 2:13-15
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.