'Deeds' in the Bible

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

On that day, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?'

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

He said to them, "What things?" "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene," they replied, "a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"

"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know --

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which in translation means Dorcas). She was continually doing good deeds and acts of charity.

Many of those who had believed came forward, confessing and making their deeds known.

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.

but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

Tell them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous givers, sharing with others.

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing -- the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!

to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place -- that is, if you do not repent.

I know your deeds: your love, faith, service, and steadfast endurance. In fact, your more recent deeds are greater than your earlier ones.

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.

And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations --

"To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: 'I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead.

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: 'Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them."

They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: "Great and astounding are your deeds, Lord God, the All-Powerful! Just and true are your ways, King over the nations!

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.

Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.

She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen" (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened -- the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.

The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each one was judged according to his deeds.