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good work (複数形 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."