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Warning Against Spiritual Immaturity

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

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Chapter 5
11 Concerning this, the word is too much for us and hard to explain, since you have become dull in hearing. 12 For 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. 13 For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But 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
1 Therefore, 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, 2 teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And we will do this, if God permits. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift and became partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and having tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 and having fallen away, to renew them to repentance again, crucifying the Son of God afresh for themselves and exposing him to public shame. 7 For 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. 8 but bearing thorns and thistles, worthless and near to a curse, whose end is for burning. 9 But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, of better things—things that hold to salvation—even if we speak in this way. 10 For 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. 11 But we desire each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of the hope until the end, 12 so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.