11Concerning this, the word is too much for us and hard to explain, since you have become dull in hearing.12For by this time you ought to be teachers, but you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God, and you have become those who need milk, not solid food.13For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.14But solid food is for the mature, those who through habit have their senses trained for the discernment of both good and evil.
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Chapter 6
1Therefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be carried on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,2teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.3And we will do this, if God permits.4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift and became partakers of the Holy Spirit,5and having tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,6and having fallen away, to renew them to repentance again, crucifying the Son of God afresh for themselves and exposing him to public shame.7For the earth that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces vegetation fit for those by whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.8but bearing thorns and thistles, worthless and near to a curse, whose end is for burning.9But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, of better things—things that hold to salvation—even if we speak in this way.10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name's sake, in serving the saints and still serving.11But we desire each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of the hope until the end,12so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.