47 Bible Verses about acting

So also faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself.

Let all things of you be done in love.

For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.

For while one may say, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I abolished the childish things.

so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

And he said, Truly I say to you, if ye are not turned, and become as children, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

There is he who makes himself rich, yet has nothing, [and] he who makes himself poor, yet [has] great wealth.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

But it came to pass during his service as a priest in the course of his division in the presence of God,

My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

whom Jason has received. And all these men are acting against the decrees of Caesar, asserting another man to be king, Jesus.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

And I will give sons to be their rulers, and babes shall rule over them.

Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, [yea], every good path.

So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.

providing things right, not only in the sight of Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

And he released the man who had been cast into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they asked for, but he delivered Jesus to their will.

However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, for they dealt faithfully.

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has power based upon his own will, and has decided this in his heart, to keep his own celibacy, does well.

If ye indeed fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well.

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name. He works in the arrogance of pride.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says lord LORD: In this moreover your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise. Why should thou destroy thyself?

He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.