Warning against Falling Away

¹¹ About this^[a] we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

¹⁶ speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist^[a] to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.^(A)

⁶ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

²⁵ Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

²¹ Then he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”^(A)

¹⁷ And becoming aware of it, Jesus said to them, “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?^{(A) 18} Do you have eyes and fail to see? Do you have ears and fail to hear? And do you not remember?