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A person who has become a new creature, is visibly in Christ, ready to perform good works. [18] "God prepared beforehand" (KJV: "God has before ordained") or has "before prepared": the preparation of good works to be performed by believers, and the preparation of the believers for performing the works, both are from the Lord.
Other references to the concept include Ephesians 2:10, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." [1] The old, Adamic creation could not be said to be in any sense "in Christ," so this must therefore be speaking of new creation. [citation needed]
It is up to us to commit to and acquire faith through God's mercy, so that we will see the need and have the will to do good works and deeds of righteousness, in the hope we will obtain God's final grace as the last Judgment. Good works is "a necessary consequence of a faith-filled heart," but it is only part of the requirement of salvation ...
This treasury includes as well the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are truly immense, unfathomable, and even pristine in their value before God. In the treasury, too, are the prayers and good works of all the saints, all those who have followed in the footsteps of Christ the Lord and by his grace have made their lives ...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden hailed former President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39 th president, as "a practitioner of good works" in a eulogy delivered on the final day of the state funeral ...
Pseudo-Chrysostom: "Solomon says, Before prayer, prepare thy soul.(Ecclus. 18:23. [6]) This he does who comes to prayer doing alms; for good works stir up the faith of the heart, and give the soul confidence in prayer to God.
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