From eu ('well/good') and poieo ('to do/make'). Eupoiia is the active practice of doing good โ the lifestyle of beneficence. It appears only once in the New Testament but represents a key ethical concept.
Hebrews 13:16 commands: 'But to do good (eupoiias) and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.' In a passage about living sacrifices, Paul places eupoiia alongside fellowship and sharing as the new covenant's temple sacrifices. The believer's life of active goodness is itself a priestly offering. This is not legalism but the natural overflow of grace received. Those who have been made good by Christ (being God's poiema, 'workmanship,' Eph. 2:10) become agents of eupoiia in the world โ doing the good works prepared beforehand for them.