For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For we are his workmanship, not only as to our body and soul, but by a new creation in Christ Jesus, with a new heart by his grace. (Witham)
St. Paul now compares our conversion to creation, to show that we had been called and justified without preceding merit. In the same manner as the things which God has drawn out of nothing, cannot glory as if they had contributed any thing to their existence. (St. Jerome, hic .)