For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ἔργον
Vocabulary form:
e[rgon, -ou, tov
Definition:
work, deed, action
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
169
GK:
2240
Root:
ejrgo
Cognates:
Ergonomics is the science that coordinates the design of machines to the requirements of the worker to aid in the work.
Mnemonic Singing:
Alike at work and prayer,
to Jesus I repair,
may Jesus Christ be praised.
Verse:
“Fire will test what sort of ἔργον each has done.” (1 Cor 3:13)
Biblical Concordance
| Titus 1:16 | They profess to know God, but by their deeds (ergois | ἔργοις | dat pl neut) they deny him, being abominable and disobedient and worthless for any good work (ergon | ἔργον | acc sg neut). |
| Titus 2:7 | in all things, showing yourself to be an example of good works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut), pure and dignified in your teaching, |
| Titus 2:14 | who gave himself for us so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and cleanse for himself a special people, a zealot for good works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut). |
| Titus 3:1 | Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any good work (ergon | ἔργον | acc sg neut), |
| Titus 3:5 | not because of works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) of righteousness that we did but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, |
| Titus 3:8 | Trustworthy is the saying, and I want you to insist emphatically on these things so that those who have believed in God might be intent on devoting themselves to good works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut). These are good and profitable for people. |
| Titus 3:14 | And let our people learn to be devoted to good deeds (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut), specifically the urgent needs, lest they be fruitless. |
| Hebrews 1:10 | And, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works (erga | ἔργα | nom pl neut) of your hands. |
| Hebrews 3:9 | where your fathers put me to the test through their distrust, though they had seen my works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) |
| Hebrews 4:3 | For we who have believed do enter that rest, just as God has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They shall certainly not enter my rest,’” and yet his work (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) has been completed since the foundation of the world |
| Hebrews 4:4 | For somewhere he has spoken of the seventh day in this manner: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) |
| Hebrews 4:10 | For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut), as God did from his. |
| Hebrews 6:1 | Therefore let us leave standing the elementary teaching about Christ and let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) and of faith in God, |
| Hebrews 6:10 | For God is not so unjust as to forget your work (ergou | ἔργου | gen sg neut) and the love you have demonstrated for his cause, when you served and continue to serve fellow believers. |
| Hebrews 9:14 | how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) to worship the living God! |
| Hebrews 10:24 | And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut), |
| James 1:4 | And let endurance carry out its intended (ergon | ἔργον | acc sg neut) purpose, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing. |
| James 1:25 | But the person who looks intently into the perfect law, the law that provides liberty, and continues in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer (ergou | ἔργου | gen sg neut) — he will be blessed in his doing. |
| James 2:14 | What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut)? Can that kind of faith save him? |
| James 2:17 | In the same way faith, if it has no works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut), is dead, since it is by itself. |
| James 2:18 | But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) Show me your faith without works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut), and I will show you my faith by my works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut). |
| James 2:20 | Would you like to be shown, you shallow person, that faith without works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) is useless? |
| James 2:21 | Was not Abraham our father justified by works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? |
| James 2:22 | You see that faith was at work along with his works (ergois | ἔργοις | dat pl neut) and that his faith was made complete by his works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut). |
| James 2:24 | You see that a person is justified by works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) and not by faith alone. |
| James 2:25 | And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) when she took in the spies and sent them out by another way? |
| James 2:26 | For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith devoid of works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) is dead. |
| James 3:13 | Who is wise and understanding among you? By his exemplary conduct let him show his works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) done in the gentleness born of wisdom. |
| 1 Peter 1:17 | And if you call upon him as Father who judges impartially according to the work (ergon | ἔργον | acc sg neut) of each, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your exile, |
| 1 Peter 2:12 | and maintain an honorable lifestyle among the Gentiles so that, with respect to the very things about which they slander you as evildoers, they may, by observing your good works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut), glorify God on the day of visitation. |
| 2 Peter 2:8 | (for while that righteous man was living among them day after day, he was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds (ergois | ἔργοις | dat pl neut) that he saw and heard); |
| 2 Peter 3:10 | But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements will melt in the intense heat, and the earth and the works (erga | ἔργα | nom pl neut) in it will be exposed. |
| 1 John 3:8 | The one who continues to sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose — that he might destroy the works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) of the devil. |
| 1 John 3:12 | We are not to be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds (erga | ἔργα | nom pl neut) were evil and those of his brother were righteous. |
| 1 John 3:18 | Little children, let us love, not in word or speech but in action (ergō | ἔργῳ | dat sg neut) and truth. |
| 2 John 1:11 | for the one who gives him a greeting becomes a partner in his evil deeds (ergois | ἔργοις | dat pl neut). |
| 3 John 1:10 | For this reason, should I come, I will bring up the things (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) he is doing, disparaging us with malicious talk. And not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He even prevents those who would like to and puts them out of the church. |
| Jude 1:15 | to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly acts (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) that they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” |
| Revelation 2:2 | I know your works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut), your toil and your patient endurance, and that you cannot put up with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles (but are not) and found them to be false. |
| Revelation 2:5 | Therefore remember from where you have fallen; repent and do the works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. |
| Revelation 2:6 | But you do have this: you hate the practices (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. |
| Revelation 2:19 | I know your works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut), your love and faith and service and steadfast endurance, and that your recent works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) are greater than the first. |
| Revelation 2:22 | Beware, I will throw her onto a bed of suffering, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of her ways (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut). |
| Revelation 2:23 | I will kill her children with a fatal disease. Then all the churches will understand that I am the one who searches minds and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut). |
| Revelation 2:26 | As for the one who conquers, who keeps my works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, |
| Revelation 3:1 | “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: The one who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars has this to say: I know your deeds (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut); that you have a reputation that you are alive, but you are dead. |
| Revelation 3:2 | Wake up and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut) fully completed in the sight of my God. |
| Revelation 3:8 | I know your works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut). Look, I have placed before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. |
| Revelation 3:15 | I know your works (erga | ἔργα | acc pl neut), that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! |
| Revelation 9:20 | The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works (ergōn | ἔργων | gen pl neut) of their hands so as to give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. |
Mnemonics
Aragorn does good work.
Aragorn does good work.
This ERGONomic chair WORKs
This ERGONomic chair WORKs great and keeps my back in ACTION.