34 Bible Verses about acting
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For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but being busy-bodies.
For when one saith, I am indeed of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
For it is God who worketh effectually in you both to will and to perform of his good pleasure.
But these men, as the naturally irrational brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of the things of which they are ignorant, will perish by their own corruption;
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things.
that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he causeth his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and tendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry.
AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.
and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be changed and be as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
And it came to pass, as he discharged his priestly office in the order of his periodical ministration before God,
My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;
to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law.
whom Jason has entertained in his house: and the practice of all these fellows is in direct opposition to all Caesar's ordinances, for they affirm that another is king, one Jesus.
For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
So speak, and so act, as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty.
providing what is fair, not only before the Lord, but also before men.
Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not;
But when I saw that they walked not directly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?
Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.
Then released he to them him who for sedition and murder had been cast into prison; but he gave up Jesus to their will.
But he that is stedfast in his heart, not having any necessity, but retaineth power over his own inclination, and hath determined this in his heart that he will preserve his own virgin state, doeth well.
If indeed ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would.
He who saith that he abideth in him, ought as he walked, even so himself to walk.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Luke 5:5And Simon answering, said unto him, Sir, we have been toiling all night, and have taken nothing: but at thy command I will shoot the net.
Acting Alone
Matthew 18:15Now if thy brother sin against thee, go and reprove him between thyself and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us: What description givest thou of thyself?
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12For it is scandalous but to mention the things done of them in secret.
God Acting Of Old
Acts 14:16who in the past generations hath suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
People Acting Madly
2 Corinthians 5:13For if we are transported out of ourselves, it is for God; or if we are sober-minded, it is for your sake.