——>Jesus is telling these people they never were followers of Him. The word lawlessness means someone who has an utter disregard for God and His Law. These are people who have completely rejected God.
They claimed Christ, as you do. They were not in harmony with the will of God. Same for you. It is your side that teaches God’s law has no bearing on the “saved/judged”. Just ask Metmom (God’s law only applies to the unsaved). THAT is lawlessness. Ravi practiced it to an art.
I never knew you. Or, according to the form of the Greek verb, “I never recognized [or, “became acquainted with”] you.” This is evidence that their teachings and miracles had not been spoken and performed in harmony with the will of God, or by His power.
Iniquity. Gr. anomia, “lawlessness,” or “lack of conformity with law.” The workers of iniquity are “lawless” because they have refused to conform their lives to the perfect pattern set forth in the law of the kingdom of heaven—and “sin is the transgression of the law [anomia] ” (1 John 3:4). On the Mount of Olives Christ said that in the last days “iniquity,” anomia, would abound (Matt. 24:12), and a few decades later Paul observed that the “mystery of iniquity [anomia] ” was already at work (2 Thess. 2:7).
SDA Bible Commentary
As I said...you have other issues to contend with.