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Noun ergasia (work, gain) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Luke
| 12: 58 | Thus, when you go with your accuser before a magistrate, on the way do work (ergasia) to settle the case, or you may be dragged before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you in prison. |
Acts
| 16: 16 | One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slavegirl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great gain (ergasia) by fortune-telling. |
| 16: 19 | But when her owners saw that their hope of making gain (ergasia) was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. |
| 19: 24 | A man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little work (ergasia) to the artisans. |
| 19: 25 | These he gathered together, with the workers of the same trade, and said, "Men, you know that we get our wealth from this work (ergasia). |
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