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26 Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

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26 “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

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    Yet they act so pious!
They come to the Temple every day
    and seem delighted to learn all about me.
They act like a righteous nation
    that would never abandon the laws of its God.
They ask me to take action on their behalf,
    pretending they want to be near me.

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For day after day they seek(A) me out;
    they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
    and has not forsaken(B) the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
    and seem eager for God to come near(C) them.

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16 Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are detestable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good.

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16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him.(A) They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.(B)

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They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!

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having a form of godliness(A) but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.(B)

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