3 We’re going to press on, if God allows it.
4 Because it’s impossible to restore people to changed hearts and lives who turn away once they have seen the light, tasted the heavenly gift, become partners with the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age.
6 They are crucifying God’s Son all over again and exposing him to public shame.
7 The ground receives a blessing from God when it drinks up the rain that regularly comes and falls on it and yields a useful crop for those people for whom it is being farmed.
8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it’s useless and close to being cursed. It ends up being burned.
9 But we are convinced of better things in your case, brothers and sisters, even though we are talking this way—things that go together with salvation.