34 Bible Verses about acting

In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing.

Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit.

We hear that there are among you people who are living ill- ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busy-bodies.

When one says 'I follow Paul,' and another 'I follow Apollos,' are not you like other men?

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

These men, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed--these men, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,

When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.

That you may become Sons of your Father who is in Heaven; for he causes his sun to rise upon bad and good alike, and sends rain upon the righteous and upon the unrighteous.

If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, let him act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong-let the marriage take place.

But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded-mere infants in the Faith of Christ.

"I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all.

One day, when Zechariah was officiating as priest before God, during the turn of his Division,

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law.

And have been harbored by Jason! They say that some one else is king--a man called Jesus!"

For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!

Therefore, speak and act as men who are to be judged by the 'Law of Freedom.'

For we are trying to make arrangements which shall be right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

What I mean, Brothers, is this-The time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"

Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.

On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.

Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;

Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools;

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.