47 Bible Verses about acting

Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

Let all your things be done with love.

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

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

There is one that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is one that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

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

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; and he that hastens with his feet sins.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Then shall you understand righteousness, and justice, and equity; yea, every good path.

So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep her his virgin, does well.

If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Proud and haughty scoffer is his name, who deals in arrogant pride.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Be not overly righteous; neither make yourself overly wise: why should you destroy yourself?

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