My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

For you have said, 'My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.'

Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.

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

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.'

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,