27 Bible Verses about One's Deeds

I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance. I know that you cannot bear evil men, but you have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and have found them to be false;

I know your works, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that your works are now more than at the first.

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead.

I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

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

So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

And the multitudes asked him, "What then shall we do?"

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"

Likewise the soldiers asked him, "And what shall we do?" So he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages."

Now to him who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.

For I do not do the good I want to do; but the evil I do not want to do is what I do.

each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Let such people realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would.

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

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

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does.

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good life let him show his deeds in the humility of wisdom.

Remember then from where you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them."

It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean"; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.