47 Bible Verses about acting

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Let all your things be done with charity.

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.