Bible Verses about “action”
The Bible contains 21 verses about action across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”
“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”
“knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.”
“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”
“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”
“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”
“And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,”
“and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?”
“Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.”
“What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?”
“For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.”
“You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.”
“You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.”
“Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.”
“But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?”
“and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.”
“Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?”
“You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;”
“In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?”
“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--”