Their worship of me is an empty show; the things they teach are only men's precepts.'"

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'

or of practical service, in the field of service; or of a teacher, in the field of teaching;

For everything that was written in the earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by our patient endurance and through the encouragement the Scriptures bring we might continuously cherish our hope.

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

which refer to things that perish in the using, in accordance with human rules and teachings?

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,