precepts

You won’t find this moral precept in the scriptures.

你在《圣经》中找不到这种道德规范。

It occurs to me that example is always more efficacious than precept.

我想到身教重于言教。

Armed with such a precept,a number of doctors may slip into deceptive practices.

有了这样一条指导原则,一些医生可能渐渐习惯于采取骗人的做法。

They accept the Prophet’s precepts but reject some of his strictures.

他接受先知的教训, 但拒绝他的种种约束。

?So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God.

只要他不伤害我，我会高兴地坐在他的脚上听着他崇高的纯洁、超尘脱俗和灵，还有对神陶醉的爱。