And, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions.
In order that you may be able to satisfy yourself of the accuracy of the story which you have heard from the lips of others.]
The servant who knows his master's wishes and yet does not prepare and act accordingly will receive many lashes;
Now that you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.
Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent,
Until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the Day of Christ,
Bring everything to the test; cling to what is good;
But 'solid food' is for Christians of mature faith--those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong.
He, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it--that is sin in him.