'Practices' in the Bible
But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.
Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices
If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.
But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice -- practices I also hate.
And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.
but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!