Let my teaching fall like rain and my word settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass and showers on tender plants.

You have said, "My teaching is sound, and I am pure in Your sight."

for I am giving you good instruction. Don't abandon my teaching.

Those who are confused will gain understanding and those who grumble will accept instruction.

They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men. "

They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men.

if service, in service; if teaching, in teaching;

For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, so that through our endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

All these [regulations] refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.

Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,