'Practices' in the Bible
Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil [in] what you have done.'"
Then Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who [is] like me surely practices divination?"
You must not {carry out} the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not {carry out} the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes.
"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.
[There] shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, [or] {one who practices divination}, [or] an interpreter of signs, or an augur, or sorcerer,
And he himself burned incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, according to the detestable [practices] of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the Israelites.
After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt--you, our God, have held back less than our guilt [deserved] and you have given us a remainder such as this.
And the command of Esther established these practices of Purim, and [it was] written on the scroll.
"For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, {everyone} makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, {everyone} practices deceit.
For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.
But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.
And many of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices,
All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; [There] is no one who practices kindness; [there] is not even one.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil.
And every unclean thing and one who practices detestable things and falsehood will never enter into it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.
Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.