»Then you will plead,« `We have eaten and drunk in your company and you have taught in our streets.'
»But He will reply,« `I tell you that you are no friends of mine. Begone from me, all of you, wrongdoers that you are.'
Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, `We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.
and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.
They profess to know God; but in their actions they disown Him, and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work are utterly useless.