ἔργον (Work)

The Christian Life Podcast · Mar 15, 2026 · 22m

The word “work” describes something that is accomplished through effort or activity, and may refer to physical or mental labor. A person’s works are the achievements of the tasks they have undertaken; the outcome or product of their effort.

Our walk—the manner in which we conduct our life—produces works. These works can be good, proper, maturing, or relate to darkness, unfruitful, malignantly evil, dead, lawless, and ungodly.

In Joppa, during the early church, Tabitha a disciple was a woman who was full of good (beneficial) works and mercy (Acts 9:36). The Apostle Peter was in Lydda, near…