Professing to be wise, they became fools

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.

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

But they flattered Him with their mouths, and they lied to Him with their tongues.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken piece of pottery with silver waste.

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel (but not in truth nor in righteousness).

And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.

And lo, you are to them as a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, and able to play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness!

But He answered and said to them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Israel shall cry to Me, My God, we know You.

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