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HELPS Lexicon | NASEC dictionary

14 agathoergéō (from 18/agathós, "intrinsically good" and 2041/érgon, "work") – properly, doing something
intrinsically good, like the believer doing what is both birthed and empowered by the Lord (used only in 1 Tim
6:18).

14/agathoergeō ("work what is inherently good") focuses on God's work – the one who begins and empowers all
"good works," while also requiring 100% of the believer's participation.

1 Tim 6:18: "[Believers are] to continuously work-what-is-intrinsically-good (14/agathoergéō, Gk present infinitive),


to continuously be rich in good (2570/kalós) works . . . ".  

The "good (divine) working" (14/agathoergéō) shows itself in "good works" which works with the near-synonym,
2570/kalós ("attractive, winsomely good").  Both aspects of "good" then are included (intrinsic and extrinsic good),
as both here result from "the (operating principle of) faith" (4102/pístis, "the Lord's inwrought persuasion," cf. 1
Tim 6:21).

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