Priljubljene svetopisemske vrstice iz Ephesians 2

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We are ourselves the work of God, so constituted in Christ Jesus to perform works prepared beforehand, made to walk in them, and to do them as the end of our being for which we exist.

Always realise with gratitude that only through God’s giving and through faith we reach salvation, not from ourselves, not through any works of our own, not for anything about which it is possible for us to take credit to ourselves.

in such a condition the charity and kindness of God which abound beyond all measure, making continual proof of the compassion and mercy that flow from Him, saved you and me from this death, this subjection to sin. The Christ who reigns so gloriously above all that is averse from him, he gave us life — for giving is his law, and by a gift we live.

God raised us out of it all with Christ, and He sat us down on the right hand of power with Him and gave us dominion

Your condition then is no longer one of alienation, strangeness, subjection. You have received the citizenship of the saints, you are members of a household, the house of God; you are, as it were, stones in a temple built up on a foundation of apostles and prophets, the chief “corner-stone”