My instruction shall drop as the rain; my words shall descend like dew, as the gentle rains on the tender plant, and as the showers on vegetation.

You say to God: 'My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.'

I give you good instruction. Do not abandon my Law!

People who stray will learn to understand. Those who always grumble will be glad to be taught.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules (commands) of men.'

They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.'

or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he who teaches on teaching;

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.

These are the precepts and doctrines of men.

Therefore leaving the elementary truths of the doctrine of Christ let us move on to maturity. Let us not lay again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.