'Act' in the Bible

they said to him, testing [him], "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery!

but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong.

So we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun [it], thus he would also complete for you this [act of] grace.

Because of this, I am writing these [things] [although I] am absent, in order that [when I] am present I may not have to act severely according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty,

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

Dear friend, you act faithfully [in] whatever you do for the brothers, {even though they are strangers}.

And a mouth was given to him speaking great [things] and blasphemies, and authority to act was given to him [for] forty-two months.