Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like:
But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,
And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
And they approached the village where they were going, and He acted as though He were going farther.
they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.
“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.
and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.
But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.
Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day--
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.
“Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For ALL THE NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU, FOR YOUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS HAVE BEEN REVEALED.”
with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”
“And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning,
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.
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