My message shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the light rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

For you have said, My doctrine [that God afflicts the righteous knowingly] is pure, and I am clean in [God's] eyes.

For I give you good doctrine [what is to be received]; do not forsake my teaching.

Those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur [discontentedly] will accept instruction.

Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men.

In vain (fruitlessly and without profit) do they worship Me, ordering and teaching [to be obeyed] as doctrines the commandments and precepts of men.

[He whose gift is] practical service, let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, to his teaching;

For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our instruction, that by [our steadfast and patient] endurance and the encouragement [drawn] from the Scriptures we might hold fast to and cherish hope.

So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.

Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines.

Therefore let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God,