deed, doing, labour, work

“Fruit Bearing” From Dictionary of Biblical Words:

is not in itself eternal life, but is the sign and proof of it to others, not to myself or to God. Fruit is only produced by abiding in Christ (see BRANCHES). If a, person outwardly attached himself to Christ by profession as a branch, and yet produced no fruit, we should not be entitled to consider him a Christian (see John 20 and James 2).

“Works” From Dictionary of Biblical Words:

The Christian is created unto good works, but he can only do them by receiving a full and free salvation without works. Justification is by faith alone, But not, as has been well said, by faith which is alone; because, although to believe God is eternal life, the evidence to men, not to ourselves or God, that we lave thus truly believed, is in our good works. Hence the apparent contradiction between James 2 and Rom. 4, the former insisting on works, because treating of justification before man, the latter on faith, treating of justification before God. The difference between legal and Christian “good works” is that the former were to merit life, the latter a proof that we have it, never a means of obtaining it.

Concise Bible Dictionary:

These are activities, divine or human, which may proceed from good or evil. We read of “dead works”: acts of mere ceremony, and the religious efforts of the flesh—the flesh profiteth nothing (Heb. 6:1; Heb. 9:14). These stand in contrast to “works of faith,” which are the expression of life by the operation of the Holy Spirit (Heb. 11). The works of the flesh are detailed in Galatians 5:19-21.
Man is justified by faith apart from the “works of the law” (Rom. 3:20; Gal. 2:16), but real faith will produce “good works,” and these can be seen of men, though the faith itself be invisible (James 2:14-26).
The Lord Jesus when on earth declared that His works gave evidence that He was Son of God, and had been sent by the Father, and that the Father was in Him, and He in the Father (John 9:4; John 10:37-38; John 14:11).
When the Jews were persecuting Christ because He had healed a man on the Sabbath day, He said, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” (John 5:17). God had rested from His works of creation on the seventh day, but sin had come in, and in the Old Testament allusions are frequent as to the activity of Jehovah for the spiritual blessing of man.
The apostle Paul, in writing to Titus, insists strongly on good works, that Christianity might not be unfruitful.
Everyone will have to give an account of himself to God (Rom. 14:12); and the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works (Rev. 20:12-13).

Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:

Greek:
ἔργον
Transliteration:
ergon
Phonic:
er’-gon
Meaning:
from a primary (but obsolete) ἔργω (to work); toil (as an effort or occupation); by implication, an act
KJV Usage:
deed, doing, labour, work