47 Bible Verses about acting
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We have heard say, no doubt, that there are some which walk among you inordinately, and work not at all, but are busybodies.
As long as one saith "I hold of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are ye not carnal?
For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.
But these, as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction,
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a child: but as soon as I was a man I put away childishness.
that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.
And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers; in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me.
If any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin if she pass the time of marriage, and if so need require, let him do what he listeth, he sinneth not: let them be coupled in marriage.
And I could not speak unto you brethren as unto spiritual: but as unto carnal, even as it were unto babes in Christ.
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
and said, "Verily, I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Some men are rich, though they have nothing; again, some men are poor having great riches.
But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.
And it came to pass, as he executed the priest's office before God as his course came,
My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:
To them that were without law, became I as though I had been without law - when I was not without law as pertaining to God, but under a law as concerning Christ - to win them that were without law.
which Jason hath received privily. And these all do contrary to the elders of Caesar, affirming another King: one Jesus."
Where no discretion is, there the soul is not well; and whoso is swift on foot, stumbleth hastily.
Me thinketh that God hath set forth us, which are apostles, for the lowest of all: as it were, men appointed to death. For we are a gazingstock unto the world, and to the angels, and to men.
And I shall give you children to be your princes, sayeth the LORD, and babes shall have the rule of you.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, judgment and equity - yea, and every good path.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
and therefore make provision for honest things, not in the sight of God only, but also in the sight of men.
This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:
A fool doth wickedly and maketh but a sport of it; nevertheless it is wisdom for a man to beware of such.
But when I saw that they went not the right way after the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before all men, "If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the gentiles, and not as do the Jews: why causest thou the gentiles to live as do the Jews?"
Brethren, be not children in wit. Howbeit, as concerning maliciousness be children: but in wit be perfect.
and let loose unto them, him that for insurrection, and murder, was cast into prison, whom they desired: and delivered Jesus to do with him what they would.
Howbeit, let no reckoning be made with them of the money that is delivered into their hands, but let them do it of their conscience."
Nevertheless, he that purposeth surely in his heart, having none need: but hath power over his own will: and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well.
If ye fulfil the royal law - according to the scripture which saith, "Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself" - ye do well.
He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously.
For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.
"Therefore, O thou son of man, tell the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Beside all this, your forefathers have yet blasphemed me more, and greatly offended against me.
He that saith he bideth in him, ought to walk even as he walked.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21In the tabernacle of witness without the veil which is before the witness, shall Aaron and his sons dress it both even and morning before the LORD: And it shall be a duty for ever unto your generations after you: to be given of the children of Israel."
Acting Alone
Genesis 45:1And Joseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him, but commanded that they should go all out from him, and that there should be no man with him, while he uttered himself unto his brethren.
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22Then said they unto him, "What art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thy self?"
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12For it is shame even to name those things which are done of them in secret:
Acting Three Times
Titus 3:10A man that is given to heresy, after the first and the second admonition; avoid,
God Acting Of Old
Psalm 102:25Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.
People Acting Madly
Ecclesiastes 10:13The beginning of his talking is foolishness, and the last word of his mouth is great madness.