Let my teaching drop as the rain, Let my speech distil as the dew, - As copious rains on tender grass, As myriad drops on seeding plants.

Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.

For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.

Then will they who erred in spirit comprehend, And the murmurers, accept instruction.

But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching, for teachings, the commandments of men.

But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching for teachings, the commandments of men;

Or ministering, use it in our ministering, or he that teacheth, let him use his gift in his teaching,

Whatsoever things, in fact, were written aforetime, allfor our own instruction were written, - in order that, through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have their hope.

That we may, no longer, be infants - billow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching, - in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;

Which things are all for decay in the using up; - according to the commandments and teachings of men?

Wherefore, dismissing the elementary discourse concerning the Christ, unto maturity, let us be tending, not, again, a foundation, laying down - of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God,