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A Word for the Day: Key Words from New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

The purpose of this book is to share the richness of some of the Greek words used in the New Testament and help make them practical in the reader's Christian living. Simply because words matter, the words of the New Testament matter most. And in a day when words don't seem to mean much, the need for precision in Christian doctrine and practice has never been more critical. Each day of the year a...

ergazomai So important is our labor for the Lord that Paul is not satisfied with just using kopiaō in Ephesians 4:28 but adds “working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.” Working is ergazomai , which speaks of work in general, such as working “in a field (Matt. 21:28) or at a trade (Acts 18:3), or even ‘to do business’ (Matt. 25:16)”192 Not only are we working to the point of exhaustion (kopiaō), but we are doing it systematically,
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