This passage emphasizes that salvation is a gift from God, not earned through human effort or merit. It also highlights our role as His workmanship, created for good works.

Jesus uses metaphors of salt and light to show how believers should influence the world around them.

This passage from Ephesians explains how we are saved by grace through faith, not by our own works. It also emphasizes that we are God's workmanship, created for good works.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 urges wholehearted work in the brief time we have, because the grave ends every plan, every skill, and every opportunity to labor.