34 Bible Verses about acting
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So also faith, if it is unaccompanied by obedience, has no life in it--so long as it stands alone.
For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.
For when some one says, "I belong to Paul," and another says, "I belong to Apollos," is not this the way men of the world speak?
For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.
that so you may become true sons of your Father in Heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked as well as the good, and sends rain upon those who do right and those who do wrong.
If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.
And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings--mere babes in Christ.
said, "In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will in no case be admitted into the Kingdom of the Heavens.
Now while he was doing priestly duty before God in the prescribed course of his class,
Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.
to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law--in order to win those who are without Law.
Jason has received them into his house; and they all set Caesar's authority at defiance, declaring that there is another Emperor-- one called Jesus."
God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.
Speak and act as those should who are expecting to be judged by the Law of freedom.
For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity, but man's also.
Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,
As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?
Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years.
The man who was lying in prison charged with riot and murder and for whom they clamoured he set free, but Jesus he gave up to be dealt with as they desired.
But if a father stands firm in his resolve, being free from all external constraint and having a legal right to act as he pleases, and in his own mind has come to the decision to keep his daughter unmarried, he will do well.
If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.
For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.
The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.
Topics on Acting
Acting All Night
Luke 5:5"Rabbi," replied Peter, "all night long we have worked hard and caught nothing; but at your command I will let down the nets."
Acting Alone
Matthew 18:15"If your brother acts wrongly towards you, go and point out his fault to him when only you and he are there. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Acting For Oneself
John 1:22So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"
Acting In Secret
Ephesians 5:12for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of.
Acting Three Times
Titus 3:10After a first and second admonition, have nothing further to do with any one who will not be taught;
People Acting Madly
2 Corinthians 5:13For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory; or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be of service to you.