1. Therefore, let us leave behind the basic teaching about Christ and advance to maturity, without laying the foundation all over again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
2. instruction about baptisms and laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
3. And we shall do this, if only God permits.
4. For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened and tasted the heavenly gift and shared in the holy Spirit
5. and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6. and then have fallen away, to bring them to repentance again, since they are recrucifying the Son of God for themselves and holding him up to contempt.
7. Ground that has absorbed the rain falling upon it repeatedly and brings forth crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.
8. But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is rejected; it will soon be cursed and finally burned.