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Q124. What does it mean to confess sin with your mouth while loving it in your heart?

It means condemning sin in your words while refusing to let it go; when "with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness".

Scripture Proofs — King James Version

1

Job 20:12-13

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

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Ezekiel 33:31

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.