Hebrews 5:12–6:3

¹²Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food. ^p13Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. ¹⁴But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil. ^q

Warning against Regression

6Therefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God, ^r2teaching about ritual washings, ^slaying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. ^t3And we will do this if God permits.