47 Bible Verses about acting

In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.

Your every action must be done with love.

For we hear that there are some among you who walk irresponsibly, not working at all, but interfering with the work of others.

For whenever someone says, “I’m with Paul,” and another, “I’m with Apollos,” are you not unspiritual people?

For the discerning the path of life leads upward,
so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.

so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

“But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers—their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me,

But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Happy is one who cares for the poor;
the Lord will save him in a day of adversity.

“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

One man pretends to be rich but has nothing;
another pretends to be poor but has great wealth.

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.

When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.

and Jason has received them as guests! They are all acting contrary to Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king—Jesus!”

Even zeal is not good without knowledge,
and the one who acts hastily sins.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

“I will make youths their leaders,
and the unstable will govern them.”

Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
and integrity—every good path.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.

For we are making provision for what is right, not only before the Lord but also before men.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

As shameful conduct is pleasure for a fool,
so wisdom is for a man of understanding.

But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

But no accounting is to be required from them for the money put into their hands since they work with integrity.”

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin, will do well.

Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

The proud and arrogant person, named “Mocker,”
acts with excessive pride.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by committing treachery against Me:

Don’t be excessively righteous, and don’t be overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked.