47 Bible Verses about acting

So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

Let all things ye do be done in love.

For we hear that there are some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men?

The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,

But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

and said, Verily I say to you, Unless ye are converted and become as little children, ye will not at all enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.

But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.

And it came to pass, as he fulfilled his priestly service before God in the order of his course,

Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.

Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps.

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.

So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by the law of liberty;

for we provide for things honest, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

It is as sport to a foolish man to do wickedness; but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered up to their will.

But no reckoning was made with them of the money that was given into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Proud, arrogant, scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have wrought unfaithfulness against me.

Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

He that says he abides in him ought, even as he walked, himself also so to walk.