27 Bible Verses about One's Deeds

I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors.

I know the things you do, your love and faithfulness and helpfulness and endurance, and I know that you are now doing more than you did at first.

"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: " 'He who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars speaks thus: I know what you are doing; you are supposed to be alive, but you are dead.

I know what you are doing. See! I have put before you an open door that no one can close. I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my message and you have not disowned my name.

I know what you are doing, and that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!

Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

The crowds would ask him, "Then what ought we to do?"

Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Master, what ought we to do?"

And soldiers would ask him, "And what ought we to do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money or make false charges against people, but be satisfied with your pay."

Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation,

I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do.

the quality of everyone's work will appear, for the Day will show it. For the Day will break in fire, and the fire will test the quality of everyone's work.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the product of my work in the Lord's service?

Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please.

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord,

but, as is appropriate for women who profess to be religious, with good actions.

By observing one another, let us arouse ourselves to rival one another's love and good deeds.

Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.

For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him,

But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.

You must talk and act like men who expect to be judged by the law that treats men as free.

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

So remember how far you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who from this time forth die as Christians!" "Yes!" answers the Spirit, "Let them rest from their toil, for what they have done will go with them!"

She has been permitted to wear clean, glistening linen, for linen represents the upright deeds of God's people."