8 Bible Verses about Professing

professing to be wise, they became foolish,

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient, and, as it respects every good work, rejected.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in.

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

He answered and said to them: "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But why call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I command?

My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.