'Practice' in the Bible

"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Then I will tell them plainly, "I never knew you. Get away from me, you who practice evil!'"

"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.

"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes others to sin and those who practice lawlessness