47 Bible Verses about acting
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For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.
For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;
When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.
And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.
Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.
A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.
Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.
For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.
And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.
But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.
They did not have to give any account of the money which was handed to them, for they made use of it with good faith.
But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.
Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.
Acting Alone
Genesis 45:1Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
Acting Three Times
Titus 3:10A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;
God Acting Of Old
Psalm 44:1It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,
People Acting Madly
Ecclesiastes 10:13The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.