47 Bible Verses about acting
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for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,
for when one may say, 'I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, 'I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,
When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,
and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.
and said, 'Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;
There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant.
and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people -- till there is no healing.
And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,
My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;
whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king -- Jesus.'
for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;
And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.
so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,
providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;
And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;
But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
only, the silver that is given into their hand is not reckoned with them, for in faithfulness they are dealing.
And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;
If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;
for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
Therefore, speak unto the house of Israel, son of man, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Still in this have your fathers reviled Me, In their committing against Me a trespass.
He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21in the tent of meeting, at the outside of the vail, which is over the testimony, doth Aaron -- his sons also -- arrange it from evening till morning before Jehovah -- a statute age-during to their generations, from the sons of Israel.
Acting Alone
Genesis 45:1And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, 'Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren,
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22They said then to him, 'Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,
God Acting Of Old
Psalm 102:25Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens.
People Acting Madly
Ecclesiastes 10:13The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, And the latter end of his mouth Is mischievous madness.