8 Bible Verses about Professing

pretending to be wise, they became fools:

they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye not only refuse to go in your selves, but hinder those that would.

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but only they who do the will of my Father who is in heaven.

and then will I make this declaration to them: I never knew you: depart from me ye that have practised iniquity.

Jesus answered, to such hypocrites as you may well be applied those words of the prophet Esaias, "this people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not observe what I say?

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.