'Works' in the Bible

And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection -- not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,