good work

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

good work (plural good works)

1. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural) A person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
   • 1859, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in The Good News of God:

     [E]verlasting life . . . must be a righteous and just life; a loving and merciful life; for God is righteous, just, loving, merciful; and more, it must be an useful life, a life of good works.

   • 1910, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 27, in The Broad Highway:

     "Truth, sir, is that which can never pass away; the Truth of Life is Good Works, which abide everlastingly."

   • 2009 February 22, Bonnie Rochman, “Why Catholic Indulgences Are Making a Comeback”, in Time, retrieved 15 August 2014:

     "The church's teaching has evolved," Walsh says. "Part of indulgences is not just saying special prayers, but also doing good works."

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