1 Therefore, leaving the elementary principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
3 This we will do if God permits.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who shared in the Holy Spirit,
5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6 if they fall away, to be renewed once more to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and subject Him to public shame.
7 For land that drinks in the rain that often falls upon it and bears a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.