epiteleo denotes bringing a work, obligation, process, or condition through to its intended end.

The verb consistently marks the carrying through of something already begun or underway: a work, readiness to act, a grace, holiness, ministry, an entrusted fruit, or even sufferings. Its passive and middle forms likewise describe a process as reaching its outcome rather than introducing a separate meaning.

1. Carry a work or process through to its end · dominant

   The active forms describe bringing specific undertakings to their intended outcome: Titus is urged to finish a grace he had begun in 2 Corinthians 8:6, readiness is to be matched by carrying out the doing in 2 Corinthians 8:11, and a good work is said to reach its end in Philippians 1:6. The same completion-frame covers holiness in 2 Corinthians 7:1, a sealed fruit in Romans 15:28, and sufferings that are in process of being brought to completion in 1 Peter 5:9.

   2 Corinthians 8:62 Corinthians 8:11Philippians 1:62 Corinthians 7:1Romans 15:281 Peter 5:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB uses “complete,” “completion,” “bringing... to completion,” and “being completed”; in Hebrews 8:5 and Hebrews 9:6 it instead presents the surrounding acts of making and performing ministry. These renderings confirm the verses' completion setting, but the translation does not isolate a fixed English equivalent for each form.