ποιέω poiéō

Meaning

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

In the King James Version: abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield

Derivation: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary;

Where it is used

• Acts 25:3 to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
• Acts 25:17 So when they came here with me, I did not delay. The next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered that the man be brought in.
• Acts 26:10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.
• Acts 26:28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”
• Acts 27:18 We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
• Acts 28:17 After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
• Romans 1:9 God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
• Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Romans 2:3 So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
• Romans 2:14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
• Romans 3:8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
• Romans 3:12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
• Romans 4:21 being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.
• Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
• Romans 7:16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
• Romans 7:19 For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
• Romans 7:20 And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
• Romans 7:21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
• Romans 9:20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
• Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
• Romans 9:28 For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”
• Romans 10:5 For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Romans 12:20 On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
• Romans 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.
• Romans 13:4 For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
• Romans 13:14 Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• Romans 15:26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
• Romans 16:17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
• 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
• 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
• 1 Corinthians 7:36 However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.
• 1 Corinthians 7:37 But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.
• 1 Corinthians 7:38 So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
• 1 Corinthians 9:23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
• 1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
• 1 Corinthians 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
• 1 Corinthians 11:25 In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:29 If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
• 1 Corinthians 16:1 Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:
• 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• 2 Corinthians 8:10 And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire.
• 2 Corinthians 8:11 Now finish the work, so that you may complete it with the same eager desire, according to your means.
• 2 Corinthians 11:7 Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
• 2 Corinthians 11:12 But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
• 2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
• 2 Corinthians 13:7 Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will do what is right, even if we appear to have failed.
• Galatians 2:10 They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
• Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
• Galatians 3:12 The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Galatians 5:3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
• Galatians 5:17 For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
• Galatians 6:9 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
• Ephesians 1:16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
• Ephesians 2:3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
• Ephesians 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
• Ephesians 3:11 according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,