Warning against Falling Away

Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,(A) teaching about ritual washings,[a] laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.(B) And we will do this if God permits.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:2 Or about baptisms

The Peril of Falling Away

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) instruction about baptisms and laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.(B) And we will do[c] this, if God permits.

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  1. 6.1 Or let us be carried along
  2. 6.1 Or toward maturity
  3. 6.3 Other ancient authorities read let us do