'Practice' in the Bible

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.

and are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice.”

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.