²⁶ Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drink in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

² Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

¹⁶ They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.