⁵ and the rabbit, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof it divideth not -- unclean it `is' to you;

¹⁸ The high hills `are' for wild goats, Rocks `are' a refuge for conies,

²⁶ Conies `are' a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

¹⁴ Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

²⁶ `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

¹⁸ and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹ Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

²² thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

²³ thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

²⁴ for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

¹⁸ for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!

¹⁹ whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

⁵ having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

¹⁶ God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.