47 Bible Verses about acting
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For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.
For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?
The way of life is above to the wise, so that he may turn away from hell below.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,
When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.
so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me,
But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.
And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who acts wisely toward the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in time of trouble.
and said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
There are those who act rich, yet have nothing; and those who act poor, yet have great riches.
But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and ill-treated His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah arose against His people, until there was no healing.
My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.
whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
Also without knowledge the soul is not good, and he who hurries with his feet sins.
For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.
And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them.
Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, every good path.
providing for honest things, not only before the Lord, but also before men.
But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.
To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel the nations to judaize?
Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
And he released to them the one who had been thrown into prison for sedition and murder, for whom they had asked. But he delivered up Jesus to their will.
Only, the silver that is given into their hand shall not be reckoned with them, for they are dealing in faithfulness.
But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but who has authority over his own will (and has so judged in his heart that he will keep his virginity) he does well.
If you fulfill the royal Law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do.
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they have committed a sin against Me.
Do not be righteous overmuch, neither make yourself overwise; why destroy yourself?
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21in the tabernacle of the congregation, outside the veil which is before the testimony. Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah. It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the sons of Israel.
Acting Alone
Genesis 45:1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. And he cried, Cause every man to go out from me! And no man stood before him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22Then they said to him, Who are you so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say of yourself?
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
God Acting Of Old
Psalm 102:25Of old You have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
People Acting Madly
Ecclesiastes 10:13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is wicked madness.