then you shall begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’
“Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their Elohim. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to Elohim.
“But He shall say, ‘I say to you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness.’
“Therefore bear fruit worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Aḇ
having a form of reverence but denying its power. And turn away from these!
They profess to know Elohim, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unfit for any good work.