'Act' in the Bible

But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.

But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.

Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;

And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men.

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.

Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.