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Hebrews

Warning Against Spiritual Immaturity

Hebrews 5:11-6:12
11Concerning which we have much to say, and it is hard to interpret, since you have become dull in the hearings. 12For although you ought to be teachers because of the time, you again have need of someone to teach you the principles of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become in need of milk, not of solid food. 13For everyone who shares of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a child. 14But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their senses trained by practice to discern good and evil.
Chapter 6
1Therefore, leaving the word of the beginning about the Christ, let us be carried on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith in God. 2Of instruction about baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3And this we will do, if indeed God permits. 4For it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and having become partakers of the Holy Spirit. 5And having tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come. 6And having fallen away, it is impossible to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves afresh and putting him to open shame. 7For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it and produces a crop suitable for those for whose sake it is also cultivated receives a blessing from God. 8But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned. 9But we are convinced of better things concerning you, beloved, things that belong to salvation, even though we speak in this way. 10For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you have served the saints and continue to serve. 11And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to the full assurance of hope until the end. 12so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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