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Orthopraxy

OR-tho-prax-eenoun

“Right practice” — living rightly: worship, ethics, and obedience, as the counterpart to orthodoxy's right belief.

Not To Be Confused With

Orthopraxy is right ACTION; orthodoxy is right BELIEF. Biblical Christianity insists on both — faith working through love — and resists pitting one against the other.

From orthos (“right”) + praxis (“action”). The New Testament refuses to separate the two: “faith without works is dead” (James 2), yet works flow from faith, not the reverse. Orthopraxy names the lived obedience that true orthodoxy produces.

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