47 Bible Verses about acting

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

All your [actions] must be done in love.

For we hear [that] some among you are living irresponsibly, working [at] nothing, but being busybodies.

For whenever anyone says, "I am with Paul," and another, "I [am] with Apollos," are you not [merely] human?

The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,

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 set aside the things of a child.

in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

" 'But when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility--

But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry.

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!

There is one who acts rich but {has nothing}; another who pretends to be poor but [has] wealth.

But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.

And it happened that [while] he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

To those outside the law [I became] as outside the law ([although I] am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.

whom Jason has entertained as guests! And these [people] [are] all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus!"

Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with [his] feet {misses the mark}.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

For we are taking into consideration what is honorable not only before the Lord, but also before people.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of [them] all, "If you, [although you] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

And he released the one who had been thrown into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will.

Only the money being given to them is not to be accounted for by them, for they [are] dealing with honesty."

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

The proud, haughty one: "scoffer" [is] his name; he acts with arrogance of pride.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

"Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Again [in] this your ancestors blasphemed me {at their display of infidelity toward me}." '

Do not be excessively righteous, and do not act excessively wise, lest you destroy yourself.

The one who says [that he] resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.