⁵ The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

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

¹⁴ They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

²⁶ Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

¹⁸ and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²¹ You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

²² You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²³ You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

²⁴ For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

¹⁶ They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.