To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of [coins of] gold and silver.

Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.

And for brass I will bring you gold, and for iron I will bring you silver, and instead of wood I will bring you brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your princes peaceable, and your overseers righteous.

Instructing the brothers in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though being tested with fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I counsel you to buy from Me gold having been tried by fire, so that you may become rich; and white robes, so that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and eye salve, so that you may anoint your eyes, in order that you may see.

Afflicted and outcast, you have not been comforted; behold, I [will] prepare carbuncle [for] your stones, and sapphire for your foundations;

And [I will cause] all your sons [to be] taught of God, and your children [to be] in great peace.

And the construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

Add not unto His words, lest He reprove you, and you be made a liar.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is My word [spoken] to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord.

then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.

'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, [in order] to draw away the disciples after them.

Now I urge you, brothers, to look out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For we are not as the rest, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Let no one rule against you, desiring [to do so] in [false] humility and in worship of the angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, in vain being puffed up by his carnal mind,

If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to regulations--

which things are all for corruption with the using, according to the commands and teaching of men?

But the Spirit explicitly says, that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

If anyone teaches differently and does not consent to sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

But shun profane and empty babblings; for they will advance to more ungodliness.

who have strayed concerning the truth, asserting that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

always learning and never being able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.

But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

whom it is necessary to shut [their] mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies, and strifes and legal fights; for they are unprofitable and futile.

knowing that such a person has been perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there [some] who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, both to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.