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But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing (humeis de, adelphoi, mē enkakēsēte kalopoiountes). Emphatic position of humeis in contrast to these piddlers. Mē and the aorist subjunctive is a prohibition against beginning an act (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 851-4). It is a late verb and means to behave badly in, to be cowardly, to lose courage, to flag, to faint, (en, kakos) and outside of Luk 18:1 in the N.T. is only in Paul’s Epistles (2Th 3:13; 2Co 4:1, 2Co 4:16; Gal 6:9; Eph 3:13). It occurs in Polybius. The late verb kalopoieō, to do the fair (kalos) or honourable thing occurs nowhere else in the N.T., but is in the lxx and a late papyrus. Paul uses to kalon poiein in 2Co 13:7; Gal 6:9; Rom 7:21 with the same idea. He has agathopoieō, to do good, in 1Ti 6:18.