good works in English

noun
1
charitable acts.
She was a leader because she had her followers in charity and good works , not because she moulded them into a political or military power.

Use "good works" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "good works" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "good works", or refer to the context using the word "good works" in the English Dictionary.

1. His good works were legion.

2. They accompanied bad language with good works.

3. 12 But ( which becometh women professing godliness ) with good works.

4. Thus, a Christian is to be energetic, zealous in good works.

5. Don’t these good works refer somehow to the noontime scourge of acedia?

6. Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?

7. What do many pursue as “good works,” and why can such lead to frustration?

8. Paul encouraged the Saints to overcome perversity, be sober and faithful, and maintain good works.

9. This it is which Allah Announceth unto His bondmen who believe and do good works

10. 21 They had joined a religious order and dedicated their lives to prayer and good works.

11. 18 In later life my mother did indeed become a deaconess and engage in good works.

12. Even your opposers may get ashamed and acknowledge your good works!—1 Peter 2:12; 3:16.

13. Such widows were to be persons having a record of good works in the advancement of Christianity.

14. He was always zealous in good works, always regular at worship and a key member of the church.

15. The “light” offered by Christendom’s missionaries in past centuries, their “good works,” emanated from a world in darkness.

16. (b) Why is it not a matter of either doing good works or sharing in the public ministry?

17. What are some “good works” that might indicate that a Latter-day Saint youth is following the Good Shepherd?

18. 24 She imagines that marriage to such a man would offer mental enrichment and the opportunity for good works.

19. Antinomians also struggle with the idea of God rewarding good works, viewing rewards as a poor motivation for obedience (72)

20. Assurance comes from “a serious and holy pursuit of a clear conscience and of good works” (Canons of Dort 5.10)

21. (Job 14:14, 15; Hebrews 11:26) At that time, no one’s good works will be cut short by death.

22. To many of them the active life seems more deserving because of the amount of good works and preaching it performs.

23. He has Created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do

24. Ancyra, Seven Martyrs of, female victims of Diocletian's persecution, 304. They were unmarried, about 70 years old, and notable for piety and good works

25. Clive Barker GALILEE (2001) All these good works did not divert the eyes of cynical observers from the sheer scale of Cadmus's Acquisitiveness, of course.

26. And we're not talking about something like being born again, or meeting the flying saucers, or something like that where good works and prayer are the method.

27. Union is strength; continual Assemblings together beget and foster love, and give good opportunities for "provoking to good works," by "exhorting one another" (Heb 3:13).

28. Advocates of Carnal Christianity charge that if we affirm that good works are necessary in the life of the believer, they assert that we necessarily deny that justification is by faith alone

29. It is quite an important writing which heavily insists on the need not to reduce our faith to a purely verbal or abstract declaration, but to express it in practice in good works.

30. Union is strength; continual Assemblings together beget and foster love, and give good opportunities for ‘provoking to good works,’ by ‘exhorting one another’… To neglect such Assemblings together might end in apostasy at last…”

31. The enrollee’s name is inscribed in the Carmelite Book of Remembrance at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and will be remembered in death perpetually in the prayers, Masses and good works of the Carmelite Fathers.

32. ‘At any historical moment, the church Canonizes people whom it needs to canonize to make a point about what it considers, at that period, an exemplary life.’ ‘In June 2001, he was canonized for his piety and good works as Saint Bernard of Corleone.’

33. + 9 Likewise, the women should adorn themselves in appropriate* dress, with modesty and soundness of mind,* not with styles of hair braiding and gold or pearls or very expensive clothing,+ 10 but in the way that is proper for women professing devotion to God,+ namely, through good works.

34. The Antinomians took their origin from John Agricola, about the year 1538, who taught that the law was in no wise necessary under the Gospel; that good works do not promote our salvation, nor ill ones hinder it; that repentance is not to be preached from the decalogue, but only from the Gospel.

35. The Antinomian impulse was one which maintained that good works were not necessary for salvation, that God delights in all Christians in the same way, that God does not see sin in the believer, that the moral law is no longer binding for Christians, that law and gospel are diametrically opposed in every way, that to strive after holiness smacks

36. Be-hold'-ing: Many Hebrew and Greek words are so rendered in English Versions of the Bible, but epopteusantes, "your good works, which they behold" (1 Peter 2:12); "Beholding your chaste behavior" (1 Peter 3:2), and epoptai, "We were eyewitnesses of his majesty" (2 Peter 1:16) are peculiar to Peter.The fact that this word is used only by Peter and is used in both epistles is an

37. Be-hold'-ing: Many Hebrew and Greek words are so rendered in English Versions of the Bible, but epopteusantes, "your good works, which they behold" (1 Peter 2:12); "Beholding your chaste behavior" (1 Peter 3:2), and epoptai, "We were eyewitnesses of his majesty" (2 Peter 1:16) are peculiar to Peter.The fact that this word is used only by Peter and is used in both epistles is an