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Greek

4160. poieo -- to make, do
... makes (7), making (9), observe (2), offer (1), offering (1), perform (4), performed
(8), performing (7), performs (1), practice (5), practices (11), practicing ...
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3834. panourgia -- cleverness, craftiness
... achieve a selfish goal. "The man who practices ( + ) is ready to do anything,
up to every trick" (P. Hughs, , 123). Word Origin from ...
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4124. pleonexia -- advantage, covetousness
... covetousness, greediness. From pleonektes; avarice, ie (by implication) fraudulency,
extortion -- covetous(-ness) practices, greediness. see GREEK pleonektes. ...
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4234. praxis -- a deed, function
... See 4238 (). Word Origin from prasso Definition a deed, function NASB Word Usage
action (1), deeds (2), function (1), practices (2). deed, office, work. ...
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4238. prasso -- to do, practice
... 1), collected (1), committed (3), deeds* (1), do (7), does (1), doing (2), done
(6), performing (1), practice (9), practiced (2), practices (1), practicing (1 ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6213a. asah -- do, make
... make (1), certainly makes (1), certainly perform (2), commit (8), commits (7), commits
and does (1), committed (35), committed and practices (1), committing (6 ...
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4611. maalal -- a deed, practice
... Word Origin from alal Definition a deed, practice NASB Word Usage actions (2),
dealings (1), deeds (34), doings (1), practices (2), works (1). ...
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4639. maaseh -- a deed, work
... 4), deeds (17), design (4), did (1), does (1), done (1), eventful (1), goods (2),
just* (1), labors (2), made (2), occupation (2), practices (2), sculptured* (1 ...
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6049a. anan -- to practice soothsaying
... to practice soothsaying NASB Word Usage diviners' (1), fortune-tellers (1), practice
witchcraft (1), practiced witchcraft (2), practices witchcraft (1 ...
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Library

Of the Practices in which the Juniors are First Exercised that ...
... Prolegomena. Chapter VIII. Of the practices in which the juniors are first exercised
that they may become proficient in overcoming all their desires. ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter viii of the practices.htm

The Nineteenth Chapter: the Practices of a Good Religious
... BOOK ONE. THOUGHTS HELPFUL IN THE LIFE OF THE SOUL The Nineteenth Chapter:
The Practices of a Good Religious. THE life of a good ...
/.../kempis/the imitation of christ/the nineteenth chapter the practices.htm

The Heretical Practices of the Marcites in Regard of Baptism.
... Book VI. Chapter XXXVI."The Heretical Practices of the Marcites in Regard of Baptism.
Such and other (tricks) this impostor attempted to perform. ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxxvi the heretical practices of.htm

The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; their Connection with Heresy ...
... Book IV. Chapter XLII."The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; Their Connection
with Heresy. These are the deeds of the magicians ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xlii the fraud of the.htm

Treacherous Friendship, and Idolatrous Practices of Licinius.
... Book II. Chapter XV."Treacherous Friendship, and Idolatrous Practices of
Licinius. And inasmuch as he who had lately fled before ...
/.../the life of constantine/chapter xv treacherous friendship and idolatrous.htm

Simon's Practices.
... Homily IV. Chapter II."Simon's Practices. "For we hear that Simon the
magician, being worsted at Cæsarea in the discussion with ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter ii simons practices.htm

Ambrose Again, Inveighing against Such Practices, Says: "Hence ...
... Book 4 Chapter 50. Ambrose again, inveighing against such practices,
says: "Hence arise these incentives to vice� 50. Ambrose ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 50 ambrose again inveighing.htm

Fraudulent Practices Pursued by Pelagius in his Report of the ...
... A work on the proceedings of pelagius, Chapter 57 [XXXII.]"Fraudulent Practices
Pursued by Pelagius in His Report of the Proceedings in Palestine, in the ...
/.../anti-pelagian writings/chapter 57 xxxii fraudulent practices pursued.htm

Special Practices of Uniformity.
... 5. Special Practices of Uniformity. Let us now take up in a practical way the
consideration of those matters in which we should unite ourselves to God's will. ...
/.../de liguori/uniformity with gods will/5 special practices of uniformity.htm

Shameless Practices of the Greeks.
... Chapter IV."Shameless practices of the Greeks. And your public assemblies
I have come to hate. For there are excessive banquetings ...
/.../justins discourse to the greeks/chapter iv shameless practices of the.htm

Thesaurus

Practices (80 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Practices (80 Occurrences). ... 1 Corinthians 9:25 But every
competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. ...
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Nicolaitans (2 Occurrences)
... Their practices were strongly condemned by John, who praised the church in Ephesus
for "hating their works" (Revelation 2:6), and blamed the church in Pergamum ...
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Cruelty (8 Occurrences)
... He has found it difficult to reconcile such practices, which bear the stamp of Divine
approval, with the highest standards of Christian morality. ...
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Cruel (196 Occurrences)
... He has found it difficult to reconcile such practices, which bear the stamp of Divine
approval, with the highest standards of Christian morality. ...
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Place (9195 Occurrences)
... worship of other gods their objectionable character is obvious, but even the worship
of Yahweh in the high places was intermixed with heathen practices (Hosea 4 ...
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Witchcraft (8 Occurrences)
... prophecy. Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The practices or art of witches;
sorcery; enchantments; contact with evil spirits. 2 ...
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Custom (51 Occurrences)
... cases where "custom" might become "statute," "usage" establish itself as "law."
In Leviticus 18:30 Jeremiah 10:3 the reference is to heathen religious practices...
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Artist (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who practices some mechanic art or
craft; an artisan. 2. (n.) One who professes and practices...
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Almsgiving (3 Occurrences)
... The teaching of Jesus on the subject is important, first, as bearing upon Jewish
ideas and practices, and second, as bearing upon present-day Christian ideas ...
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Hinnom (11 Occurrences)
... It was the scene of idolatrous practices in the days of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:3)
and of Manasseh, who "made his children to pass through the fire in the valley ...
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Bible Concordance

Practices (80 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore breaks one of these least commandments and teaches others to break them, will be called the least in the Kingdom of the Heavens; but whoever practises them and teaches them, he will be acknowledged as great in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
(See NIV)

John 3:21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
(See NAS)

Acts 19:18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
(See NAS RSV)

Romans 10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
(See NAS RSV)

1 Corinthians 9:25 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you.
(WEY)

Galatians 3:12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
(See NAS)

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
(YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
(KJV WBS)

1 John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
(WEB NAS)

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
(See NAS)

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
(See NAS)

1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
(See NAS)

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
(See NAS)

Revelation 2:6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
(See NIV)

Revelation 21:27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
(See NAS RSV)

Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 18:3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 18:9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
(See RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 20:18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
(See RSV)

Judges 2:19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
(See JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.
(See RSV)

2 Kings 17:8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they practised;
(See NIV)

2 Kings 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 17:34 To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
(See NIV)

2 Kings 17:40 However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 21:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 17:4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 27:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
(See RSV)

2 Chronicles 33:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
(See NIV)

Ezra 6:21 The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,
(See NIV)

Ezra 9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
(See NIV)

Ezra 9:11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:
(See NIV)

Ezra 9:14 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldn't you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
(See NIV)

Esther 9:32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
(See RSV)

Psalms 28:4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
(See NAS)

Psalms 101:7 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 106:35 but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
(See NAS)

Psalms 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 32:6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 8:10 So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 25:5 Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that Jehovah hath given to you and to your fathers from age unto age,
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 6:9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 6:11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 7:3 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 7:4 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 7:9 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:47 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 18:5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 20:44 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 22:2 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 23:36 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 33:19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 36:31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 43:8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 44:6 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 44:7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 44:13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
(See NIV)

Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
(See NIV)

Zechariah 1:4 Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
(See NIV)

Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said,'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
(WEB NIV)

Subtopics

Practices

Related Terms

Nicolaitans (2 Occurrences)

Cruelty (8 Occurrences)

Cruel (196 Occurrences)

Place (9195 Occurrences)

Witchcraft (8 Occurrences)

Custom (51 Occurrences)

Artist (1 Occurrence)

Almsgiving (3 Occurrences)

Hinnom (11 Occurrences)