34 Bible Verses about acting

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

let everything be done in love.

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.

For when one says, "I belong to Paul's party," and another, "I belong to Apollos' party," are you not acting as mere human creatures?

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

These men, like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct created to be caught and killed, abuse the things that they do not understand, and so by their corruption they will be destroyed, suffering wrong as punishment for their wrongdoing.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

Now if a father thinks that he is not doing the proper thing regarding his single daughter, if she is past the bloom of her youth, and she ought to do so, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the daughter and her suitor marry.

So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.

and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

Once when he was acting as priest before God, when his division was on duty, it fell to his lot,

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.

and Jason has welcomed them. They are all acting contrary to the Emperor's decrees, because they claim there is another king, Jesus."

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

You must continue talking and acting like people who are to be judged by the law that treats them as free.

For I am taking the precaution to do what is right, not only in the sight of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

But when I saw that they were not living up to the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, and that before them all, "If you are living like a heathen and not like a Jew, although you are a Jew yourself, why do you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

So he released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, whom they continued to demand, but turned Jesus over to their will.

But the father who stands firm in his purpose, without having any necessity for doing so, and he has made the decision in his own heart to keep her single, will do what is right.

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;

Though claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves,

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.