32 Bible Verses about One's Deeds

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works [are] greater than the first.

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: "This is what the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead.

'I know your works (behold, I have put before you an opened door that no one is able to shut) that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and did not deny my name.

'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!

Even by his acts, a {young man} will make himself known, whether his acts are pure and upright.

and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your {presence} in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept [with] great weeping.

Give to her from the fruit of her hand, and may they praise her works in the city gates.

In all of your dwellings, the cities will be desolate and the high places will be ruined, so that your altars will be desolate and will suffer punishment. Your idols will be broken and will come to an end, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works will be destroyed,

And God saw their deeds--that they turned from their evil ways--and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said [he would] bring upon them, and he did not do [it].

Therefore [in] all [things], whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

And the crowds were asking him, saying, "What then should we do?"

And tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

And those who served in the army were also asking him, saying, "What should we also do?" And he said to them, "Extort from no one, and do not blackmail [anyone], and be content with your pay."

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited according to grace, but according to his due.

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal [it], because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Let such a person consider this: that what we are in word by letters [when we] are absent, [we will] also [be] in {actions} [when we] are present.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

and everything {whatever} you do in word or in deed, giving thanks [for] all [things] in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him.

Whatever you do, accomplish [it] from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people,

but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness.

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at {his own face} in a mirror,

But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [to do it], not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed {in what he does}.

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

Who [is] wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works, with the humility of wisdom.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do {the works you did at first}. But if you do not, I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them."

And it has been granted to her that she be dressed in bright, clean fine linen (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).