1. Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,
2. teaching about baptisms and laying on of hands, and resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
3. And this we will do, if God permits.
4. For it is impossible concerning those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
5. and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,
6. and having fallen away, to renew them again to repentance, because they have crucified again for themselves the Son of God and held him up to contempt.
7. For ground that drinks the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth vegetation usable to those people for whose sake it is also cultivated, shares a blessing from God.
8. But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to a curse, whose end is for burning.
9. But even if we are speaking in this way, dear friends, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and belonging to salvation.