16 Bible Verses about Professing
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They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.
[Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.]
Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross
Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
“Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel
And who came forth from the loins of Judah,
Who swear by the name of the Lord
And invoke the God of Israel,
But not in truth nor in righteousness.
They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.
Behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
Many a man proclaims his own loyalty,
But who can find a trustworthy man?
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
