¹²For indeed, although you^* ought to be teachers by this time^g, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and you have need of^h milk, notⁱ solid food. ¹³For everyone who partakes of milk is unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. ¹⁴But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

A Serious Warning Against Falling Away

6Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God, ²teaching about baptisms and laying on of hands, and resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. ³And this we will do, if God permits.

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Footnotes

*Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“ought”) which is understood as concessive
gLiterally “because of the time”
hLiterally “you are having need of”
iSome manuscripts have “and not”