This Life Comes by Grace Instead of Works (2:8–10) There are few verses both more important and more misunderstood than 2:8–9. This is partly because verse 10 is often not quoted along with them. When I was a young Christian I acquired a pack of Bible verses to memorize. Among the first were Ephesians 2:8–9. I began quoting them in witnessing, but it took me years to realize that the omission of verse 10 was one reason I was having trouble persuading my morally sensitive friends that salvation is
Ephesians 2:8–10