006:005 and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away—
006:006 it is impossible, I say, to keep bringing them back to a
new repentance, for, to their own undoing, they are repeatedly
crucifying the Son of God afresh and exposing Him to open shame.
006:007 For land which has drunk in the rain that often falls upon it,
and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes,
indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.
006:008 But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is
considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed,
and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
006:009 But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier
conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends—
a conviction of things which point towards salvation.
006:010 For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and
of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having
rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.
006:011 But we long for each of you to continue to manifest
the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness
of hope to the very End;
006:012 so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators
of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs
to the promises.
006:013 For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one
greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
006:014 saying, "Assuredly I will bless you and bless you, I will
increase you and increase you."