19 occurrences in 11 translations

'Acted' in the Bible

so you will know that I am Yahweh, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practiced. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Verse ConceptsConformityImitating Wicked PeopleWhat Foreigners DoYou Will Know I Am The LordThey Do Not Keep Commands

I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodLand Becoming EmptyUnfaithful

“But you were confident in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by. Your beauty became his.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByTrust, Lack OfTrusting Yourselfwhores

Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.

Verse ConceptsDeteriorationImitating Wicked PeopleOutdoingGod's People Sinningcorruption

Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own confusion, because of thy sins in which thou hast acted more abominably than they: they are more righteous than thou. So be thou ashamed also, and bear thy confusion, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Verse ConceptsAppearancesPeople In RighteousnessShame Has ComeGod's People Sinning

But I acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made Myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfKnowing God, Nature OfProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

But I acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Verse ConceptsProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

But I withheld My hand and acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I brought them out.

Verse ConceptsProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Figurative UseTouching To Harmbreastsvirginity

“Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors

Verse ConceptsHarlots

Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt

Verse ConceptsGrowth Of EvilBeing Evil From YouthPeople RememberingSpiritual Harlotry

These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

Verse ConceptsPeople Polluting ThemselvesSpiritual HarlotryIdol Worship

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of MinistersDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

This is what the Lord God says: “Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah and incurred grievous guilt by taking revenge on them,

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingRevenge

This is what the Lord God says: “Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with deep contempt, destroying because of their ancient hatred,

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfEternal EvilMan AvengingRevenge

I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he performed, because they acted for Me,” declares the Lord God.

therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfAccording To ThingsThose Who Envied

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfUnfaithfulness, To GodExile Of Israel To AssyriaGod HidingKnowing Facts

and they shall bear their confusion, and all their unfaithfulness in which they have acted unfaithfully against me, when they shall dwell safely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsEliminating ShameUnfaithful

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