Psalms 50:17-20

Psalms 50:17-20. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

How then canst thou hope to please God with thy formal ceremonies, with thy mere attendance at the house of God while thy heart is estranged from him? Thou dost but mock God with all this empty formalism.