¹⁴ Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

²² (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

⁴ And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

⁹ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

⁷ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

⁹ But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

⁴ Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

⁵ But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

⁶ From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

⁷ Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

²² They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.