"And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD.

I, the LORD, search the heart, [I] test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

As soon as they hear of me they obey me; The foreigners submit to me.

Iniquities prevail against me; [As for] our transgressions, You will provide atonement for them.

"Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?

"Therefore speak to them, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,

"So they come to you as people do, they sit before you [as] My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, [but] their hearts pursue their [own] gain.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in [His] talk.

"Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

"The censers of these men who sinned against their own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar. Because they presented them before the LORD, therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.