²⁶ Then you will say, We have taken food and drink with you, and you were teaching in our streets.

² Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

¹⁶ They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.