'Exercises' in the Bible

Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.