The word ποιέω signifies to make 'or to do,' but indicates design and acquired habit of life: it is often applied to ‘practicing' what is good. Matt. 12:12; 19:16; John 8:29; but also to the reverse, Matt. 13:41, Rom. 3:8. The word πράσσω is applied to what we do naturally, easily. and is frequently connected with what is evil, though not absolutely restricted to this, see Rom. 9:11. Still the tendency is (where the words are used morally) to employ πο. in a good, and πρ. in an evil sense. In several passages both words occur. "Every one that doeth (πρ.) evil hateth the light.... but he that practices (πο.) the truth cometh to the light." John 3:20, 21. These "shall come forth, they that have practiced (πο.) good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done (πρ.) evil unto the resurrection of judgment," chap. 5:29. Paul thought he ought to do (πρ.) many things contrary to the name of Jesus, which he also practiced (πο.) in Jerusalem. Acts 26:9, 10. See both words also in Rom. 2:3; 7:15, 19; 13:4.