47 Bible Verses about acting

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

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

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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

"'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division,

My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"

It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

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

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.

But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully."

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.