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G4238 is a verb for doing, practicing, carrying out, acting, conducting business, or producing a result. Its thirty-nine governed tokens range across tax collection, financial return, contemplated and completed actions, repeated moral practice, legal accusations and verdicts, repentance, work, judgment, church correction, personal struggle, and learned Christian conduct. The object and setting determine what is done and whether the action is faithful, harmful, neutral, alleged, or denied.

Romans repeatedly uses the verb to confront the gap between judging and doing. Romans 7 uses it inside Paul's account of doing what he hates, while Philippians 4:9 commands practiced obedience shaped by what believers learned, received, heard, and saw. These uses do not teach salvation by performance or reduce discipleship to habits without grace. They do show that profession, judgment, desire, and repeated conduct cannot be treated as interchangeable.

Several Acts passages concern accusation, legal deliberation, reported deeds, and claims that someone has done nothing deserving death. A lexical entry cannot decide guilt, innocence, discipline, or civil liability apart from evidence and process. Luke 3 limits tax collection to what is authorized, Acts 19 depicts costly renunciation of occult practice, and Acts 26 connects repentance with deeds consistent with repentance. Application must preserve voluntary confession, restitution, financial integrity, survivor safety, fair investigation, lawful reporting, and the difference between forgiveness, trust, access, and consequence.

Thirty-nine governed tokens in thirty-seven verses describe isolated acts, ongoing practices, financial transactions, moral conduct, legal allegations, repentance, labor, judgment, and learned obedience.