In vain do they worship me, While they teach doctrines that are the commands of men."

But in vain do they worship me, For their teaching is only human precepts.'"

If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service.

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,