'Practices' in the Bible

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.

Requite them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;Requite them according to the deeds of their hands;Repay them their recompense.

He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

But they mingled with the nationsAnd learned their practices,

Thus they became unclean in their practices,And played the harlot in their deeds.

“Therefore I will give their wives to others,Their fields to new owners;Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is greedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices deceit.

“But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,

“But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

But when I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,

But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.

But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “He who practices them shall live by them.”

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.