Psalm 50:16
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
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- Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
- Psalm 25:14 The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
- Psalm 78:36–38 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues. Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant. And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.