Hebrews 6:1-8 Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God, ² with the teaching of baptism and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment. ³ And we will advance if God permits it. ⁴ For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit ⁵ and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age, ⁶ and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt. ⁷ Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing. ⁸ But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned.