1For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,
2The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.
4As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,
5With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,
6And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
7For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:
