But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth But far from their mind.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
“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 when this comes to pass—surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain.
As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.
“Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation has been sent.
Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,