1 So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death.
2 We should not return to the teaching about baptisms, about laying on of hands, about the raising of the dead and eternal judgment.
3 And we will go on to grown-up teaching if God allows.
4 Some people cannot be brought back again to a changed life. They were once in God’s light, and enjoyed heaven’s gift, and shared in the Holy Spirit.
5 They found out how good God’s word is, and they received the powers of his new world.