Hebrews 5:11–6:8
11 Concerning 1him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12 For though 1by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you athe 2belementary principles of the coracles of God, and you have come to need dmilk and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an ainfant.
14 But solid food is for athe mature, who because of practice have their senses btrained to cdiscern good and evil.
1 Therefore aleaving bthe 1elementary teaching about the 2Christ, let us press on to 3cmaturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from ddead works and of faith toward God,
2 of ainstruction about washings and blaying on of hands, and the cresurrection of the dead and ceternal judgment.
3 And this we will do, aif God permits.
4 For in the case of those who have once been aenlightened and have tasted of bthe heavenly gift and have been made cpartakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and ahave tasted the good bword of God and the powers of cthe age to come,
6 and then have fallen away, it is aimpossible to renew them again to repentance, 1bsince they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
7 For ground that drinks the rain which often 1falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those afor whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and aclose 1to being cursed, and 2it ends up being burned.