49 occurrences in 11 translations

'Behaved' in the Bible

And [why] did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons and my daughters [goodbye]? Now you have behaved foolishly [by] doing [this].

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingLove, And The WorldFrustrationgoodbyes

The LORD told Moses, "Go down immediately, because your people whom you led out of Egypt have behaved corruptly.

Verse ConceptsWorseGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptStruggles In Relationship

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness -- her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the {command of Yahweh}; you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country.

Verse ConceptsSelf WillProud People

They [have] behaved corruptly toward him; [they are] not his children; [this is] their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedEvil GenerationsCrookednessIsrael As Sons Of GodTwisted Ways

But whenever the judge died, they turned back and behaved worse than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them; they did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

Verse ConceptsHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning

Then Samuel said to Saul, "You have behaved foolishly! You have not kept the command of Yahweh your God which he commanded you. For then, Yahweh would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples Ofevil, believers' responses toStabilityThey Do Not Keep Commandssaul

And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

Verse ConceptsRankThe Righteous Prosper

And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.

Verse ConceptsFindingGod With Specific PeopleThe Righteous Prosperprospering

Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms OfFear Of IndividualsThe Righteous Prosper

Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

Saul replied, "I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won't harm you, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!"

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples Ofenemies, of believersRegretEnemies, Christian Response ToFoolish PeoplePersonal GoodWe Have Sinnedsaul

You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung Me behind your back.

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodDifferent Gods

Instead, he behaved like the kings of Israel did by making his son pass through fire, the very same abomination that the heathen practiced, whom the LORD evicted from the land right in front of the Israelis.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSacrifice, In OtSanctity Of LifePagan PracticesInfanticideThe Lord Drove Them Out

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he didn’t enter the Lord’s sanctuary, but the people still behaved corruptly.

Verse ConceptsImitating Good KingsEntering The Temple

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toGuilt

We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordBreaking God's Law

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances -- those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfStiffnecked PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawProud People

Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

Verse ConceptsThings Revealed

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingBereavement, Expression OfBowingHeadsAttitude Towards Your MotherMourning DeathDeath Of A Mothergrieving

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

Verse ConceptsAxesFelling Trees

We have sinned like our fathers,We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

Verse ConceptsPast, TheAcknowledge, SinLike People In CharacterWe Have Sinned

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

Verse ConceptsChildlikenessQuietnessWeaningMaking Stillmomssoulbreastsbabymyself

"How can you say, 'I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to the gods called Baal.' Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Unclean

Yet they did not listen to Me and obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but stiffened their neck; they did more evil and behaved worse than their fathers.

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, As Response To GodDeteriorationObstinate Individuals

And {you have behaved badly} more than your ancestors, and look, you [are] going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedDeteriorationimagination

"Summon many to Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Camp all around her, let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds. Do to her just as she has done. For she has behaved arrogantly against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsdefianceInfidelity To GodNo EscapeLet Evil ReboundProud People

Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!'"

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

Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.

Verse ConceptsDeteriorationImitating Wicked PeopleOutdoingGod's People Sinningcorruption

“As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“your sister Sodom and her daughters have not behaved as you and your daughters have.

Verse ConceptsNot Imitating Evil

Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.

Verse ConceptsAppearancesPeople In RighteousnessShame Has ComeGod's People Sinning

"And though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust {she behaved more corruptly than her}, and her whoring [was] more than the prostitution of her sister.

Verse ConceptsAppetite, SexualSpiritual HarlotryRelative Greatness

They'll forget their shame and all of their unfaithfulness by which they behaved so unfaithfully toward me. They will live on their land in confidence, not in fear.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsEliminating ShameUnfaithful

"You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day -- the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theSelf Righteousness, And The GospelUnfaithfulness, To GodPeople ExiledShame Has ComeUnfaithful

"Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day -- we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGod's HandStrength Of GodAs At This DayGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWe Have Sinned

For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdObstinacy Against GodHeifersBackslidingBacksliders

You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them.

Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Verse ConceptsFace Of Godethics, incentives towardsGod, Revelation OfPrayer, Advice For EffectiveRejection Of God, Results OfSin, Effects OfGod Not AnsweringGod HidingSin Separates From GodGod Answering Prayersanswers

When they saw Him, they were smitten with amazement, and His mother said to Him, "My child, why have you behaved thus to us? Your father and I have been searching for you in anguish."

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersLove, And The WorldMothers, Responsibilities OfAnxiety, CauseWhy Does Jesus Do This?

"Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets!

Verse ConceptsPopularityImitating Wicked PeopleSins Of The FathersProphets SufferingWoe To The ProsperousFake Friends

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Verse ConceptsConsciences, Before OthersBlamelessness, Church MinistersThe Witness Of GodPlea Of InnocenceClear Consciences

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofImitatingLaborImitating Good People

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