Q124. What is it to confess it with the mouth and to love it with the heart?
When men condemn it with their mouth, but refuse to let it go; when 'with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness'.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
1
Job 20:12,13
“Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:”
Jeremiah 8:5
“Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.”
2
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.”