47 Bible Verses about acting

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

Everything you do should be done in love.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

For whenever someone says, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," are you not merely human?

The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort -- for the sake of his good pleasure -- is God.

But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors' iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the Lord delivers him.

and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

But they mocked God's messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.

Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

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

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar's decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!"

It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

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

The Lord says, "I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity -- every good way.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, "If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest."

But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

A proud and arrogant person, whose name is "Scoffer," acts with overbearing pride.

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

"Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: In this way too your fathers blasphemed me when they were unfaithful to me.

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively wise; otherwise you might be disappointed.

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.