34 Bible Verses about acting
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For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, not doing any 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?
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,
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 childish ways behind me.
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
But if any man thinks that he is not acting properly toward his betrothed, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let them marry.
But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ.
and he said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,
Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth.
To those who are without law, I became as one 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 the law.
and Jason has welcomed them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."
For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, like men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; so that from now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, "If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.
And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has control over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Luke 5:5And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets."
Acting Alone
Matthew 18:15"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22Then they said to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
Acting Three Times
Titus 3:10Warn a man who is factious once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him,
People Acting Madly
2 Corinthians 5:13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.