³⁸ He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to us.^(A)

² I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,^(A)

³ So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles^[a] of the world.^(A)

The Peril of Falling Away

6 Therefore let us go on^[a] toward perfection,^[b] leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God,^(A)