Knowing GOD requires 'living righteously'

• Deut. 13:1 - 5 
• Ezek. 22:17 - E
• Gal. 6:1 - 3
• Gal. 5:16 - 17
• Gal. 6:4 - 17
• Eph. 5:1 - 25

NOTES:

• (re: Deut 13): Israel, having just come from slavery in Egypt, and having just seen the miracles of their 'redemption',  should have 'known'  their GOD. The tablets should have reinforced their understanding of  HIS Holiness, Righteousness, and what was expected for their future. (They were also told of the consequences if they didn't live up to that expectation). So when God told them to acknowledge when a prophet tried to lead them away with signs and wonders, (miracles, or prophecies), from the GOD that redeemed them, they were to recognize exactly, explicitly that the prophet was a deceiver, a false prophet;  this required swift judgment: stoning!
• (re: Ezek.22): Failing to abide by that, they became 'contaminated', no longer the 'chaste virgin', but a whore, murderers, ravening lions seeking whom they could 'devour'.
• (re: NT passages):  "Knowing" GOD, requires LIving 'godly', separately, uncontaminated by the filth of the world, by the evil people do to destroy your faith.  Be separate;  don't  'mix in'.