Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

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Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.