'Practice' in the Bible
Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
"Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice -- I will show you what he is like:
But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"
However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.
I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"
and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans."
Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
Now we know that God's judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.
And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God's judgment?
For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.
Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.
But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice -- practices I also hate.
But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death."