47 Bible Verses about acting
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For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
The path of life leads upward for the wise
That he may keep away from Sheol below.
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—
But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.
and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing;
Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth.
but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.
Now it happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division,
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.
and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,
And he who hurries his footsteps errs.
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
And I will make mere lads their princes,
And capricious children will rule over them,
Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool,
And so is wisdom to a man of understanding.
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
And he released the man they were asking for who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, but he delivered Jesus to their will.
Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully.”
But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
“Proud,” “Haughty,” “Scoffer,” are his names,
Who acts with insolent pride.
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me by acting treacherously against Me.
Do not be excessively righteous and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself?
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21In the
Acting Alone
Genesis 45:1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, “Have everyone go out from me.” So there
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
God Acting Of Old
Psalm 102:25
And the
People Acting Madly
Ecclesiastes 10:13the beginning of