'Practice' in the Bible

But Laban said, “It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.

Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination?”

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.’”

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.

You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, “Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, ‘So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

How blessed are those who keep justice,Who practice righteousness at all times!

Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,To practice deeds of wickednessWith men who do iniquity;And do not let me eat of their delicacies.

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

For a fool speaks nonsense,And his heart inclines toward wickedness:To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,To keep the hungry person unsatisfiedAnd to withhold drink from the thirsty.

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

“I spoke to you in your prosperity;But you said, ‘I will not listen!’This has been your practice from your youth,That you have not obeyed My voice.

therefore, you women will no longer see false visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.”

Behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.

“Thus has the Lord of hosts said, ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.

But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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

But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”