May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.

For you say, 'My teaching [is] pure, and I am clean in your sight.'

For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching.

And those who err [in] spirit will {acquire} understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction.

and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"

And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'

if [it is] service, by service; if [it is] one who teaches, by teaching;

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

which [things] are all [meant] for destruction by consuming according to human commandments and teachings,

Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,