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

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.

For I give you good doctrine; do not forsake my law.

and those that erred in spirit shall learn understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

Howbeit in vain do they honor me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

or ministry, in serving; or he that teaches, in doctrine;

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

That we no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive,

Which all perish with the using, because they are the commandments and doctrines of men,

Therefore, leaving now the word of the beginning of the establishment of the Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from works of death, and of faith in God,