34 Bible Verses about acting

In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing.

Let all that you do be done in love.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?

for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

"In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven.

Now while Zachariah was acting as priest before God in the due course of his class, it fell to his lot, according to the custom of priesthood,

My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.

to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ).

"Jason has received them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

For I aim at being above reproach, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.

On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well.

If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.

While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.