47 Bible Verses about acting

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.

For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos,"are you not being merely human?

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

"But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry--it is no sin.

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;

and said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.

and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man.

This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.

But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly."

But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

"Scoffer" is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

"Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.

Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.