Popular Bible Verses about Actions

So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead). AMP

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. KJV

Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit. [Isa. 40:10; Jer. 17:10.] AMP

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. KJV

Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance go forth from your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. AMP

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. KJV

Let such people realize that what we say by letters when we are absent, [we put] also into deeds when we are present-- AMP

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. KJV

Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity). AMP

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. KJV

For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns]. AMP

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. KJV

They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind. AMP

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. KJV

So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. [But] their end will correspond with their deeds. AMP

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. KJV

But you [priests] profane it when [by your actions] you say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit of it, its food, is contemptible and may be despised. AMP

But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. KJV

But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. AMP

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. KJV