My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,