You will then proceed to say, 'But we ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!'
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.
for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.
Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'