⁵ And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.

¹⁸ The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

²⁶ The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;

¹⁴ They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

¹⁹ In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

²¹ You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

²² You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

²³ You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

²⁴ For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

¹⁸ For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

¹⁶ They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.