2 Korintus 9:8

9:8 And God is able to make all grace overflow ¹  to you so that because you have enough ²  of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow ³  in every good work.

Efesus 2:10

2:10 For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them. ⁴ 

Efesus 2:2

2:2 in which ⁵  you formerly lived ⁶  according to this world’s present path, ⁷  according to the ruler of the kingdom ⁸  of the air, the ruler of ⁹  the spirit ¹⁰  that is now energizing ¹¹  the sons of disobedience, ¹² 

1 Timotius 3:1

Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

3:1 This saying ¹³  is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, ¹⁴  he desires a good work.”

[9:8]  ¹ tn Or “abound.”

[9:8]  ² tn Or “so that by having enough.” The Greek participle can be translated as a participle of cause (“because you have enough”) or means (“by having enough”).

[9:8]  ³ tn Or “abound.”

[2:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “so that we might walk in them” (or “by them”).

[2:10]  sn So that we may do them. Before the devil began to control our walk in sin and among sinful people, God had already planned good works for us to do.

[2:2]  ⁵ sn The relative pronoun which is feminine as is sins, indicating that sins is the antecedent.

[2:2]  ⁶ tn Grk “walked.”

[2:2]  sn The Greek verb translated lived (περιπατέω, peripatew) in the NT letters refers to the conduct of one’s life, not to physical walking.

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Or possibly “Aeon.”

[2:2]  sn The word translated present path is the same as that which has been translated [this] age in 1:21 (αἰών, aiwn).

[2:2]  ⁸ tn Grk “domain, [place of] authority.”

[2:2]  ⁹ tn Grk “of” (but see the note on the word “spirit” later in this verse).

[2:2]  ¹⁰ sn The ruler of the kingdom of the air is also the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience. Although several translations regard the ruler to be the same as the spirit, this is unlikely since the cases in Greek are different (ruler is accusative and spirit is genitive). To get around this, some have suggested that the genitive for spirit is a genitive of apposition. However, the semantics of the genitive of apposition are against such an interpretation (cf. ExSyn 100).

[2:2]  ¹¹ tn Grk “working in.”

[2:2]  ¹² sn Sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” However, it also contains a subtle allusion to vv. 4-10: Some of those sons of disobedience have become sons of God.

[3:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “the saying,” referring to the following citation (see 1 Tim 1:15; 4:9; 2 Tim 2:11; Titus 3:8 for other occurrences of this phrase).

[3:1]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “aspires to oversight.”