Ephesians 2:8-9
The Voice
8-9 For it’s by God’s grace that you have been saved. You receive it through faith. It was not our plan or our effort. It is God’s gift, pure and simple. You didn’t earn it, not one of us did, so don’t go around bragging that you must have done something amazing.
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Ephesians 2:8
New International Version
8 For it is by grace(A) you have been saved,(B) through faith(C)—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
Galatians 2:16
The Voice
16 But we know that no one is made right with God by meeting the demands of the law. It is only through the faithfulness of Jesus[a] the Anointed that salvation is even possible. This is why we put faith in Jesus the Anointed: so we will be put right with God. It’s His faithfulness—not works prescribed by the law—that puts us in right standing with God because no one will be acquitted and declared “right” for doing what the law demands.
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- 2:16 Often translated “faith in Jesus.”
Galatians 2:16
New International Version
16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)
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- Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of
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