But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, so that you may do it.
You have planted them; indeed, they have taken root; they grow; indeed, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind.
As for them, whether they listen or not (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them. They do the lustful desires in their mouth, and their heart goes after their covetousness.
When this comes to pass, and it is coming to pass, then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote of Me.
“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those of you who fear God, the word of this salvation has been sent to us.
It is not beyond the sea, so that you should say, “Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?”
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, and death and disaster.