34 Bible Verses about acting

just so faith, if it be not operative, is intirely lifeless.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.

now being inform'd, that there are among you people of an irregular conduct, who neglect their own business, and busy themselves with the affairs of others:

while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?

for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

But as for these, they have no more reason than brute beasts that are naturally made for hunting, and slaughter: so these who calumniate what they do not understand, shall receive the reward of their iniquity by perishing in their own corruption.

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

that ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

if any man thinks it would be a reflexion upon his manhood to be a stale batchelor, and so ought to marry; let him follow his bent, he is at liberty, let such marry.

However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity.

and said, I declare to you, except ye lay aside your ambition, and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the Messias.

now Zachary was to officiate in divine service, in the order of his family,

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

they all act in defiance of the edicts of Cesar, pretending there is another king, one Jesus.

for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death. for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

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

always considering what is virtuous, with respect to God, and with respect to men.

This I say, brethren, because the time is coming, when they who have wives will be as those that have none;

but when I saw, they conformed not their conduct to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all: if you being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not according to that of the Jews, why do you constrain the Gentiles to judaize?

Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men.

accordingly he discharg'd the prisoner they desired, him that was committed for riot and murder; but he abandon'd Jesus to their discretion.

but he that has been steady in his purpose, and finds no necessity to alter it; if he is a master of his passion, and is heartily determin'd to keep his virginity, it is well.

If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.

pretending to be wise, they became fools:

for the vicious desires are contrary to those of the spirit, and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to those of the animal part; these are opposite to each other, so that you do not the things that you would.

he that says he is attach'd to Christ, ought to regulate his conduct by his example.