15 Bible Verses about Professing

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and God Most High their redeemer.

But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue.

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.

Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and {invoke} the God of Israel, [but] not in truth and not in righteousness.

And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.

Now, look! You [are] to them like {a sensual song}, beautiful of voice and {played well on an instrument}, and they hear your words, {but they are not doing them}.

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

And then {I will say to them plainly}, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!'

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me.

"And why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell [you]?

Many a person will proclaim his loyalty [for] himself, but a man [who is] trustworthy, who can find?

They cry out to me, "My God! We, Israel, know you!"

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.