¹²By now you should be teachers, but you need someone to teach you again the first lessons of God’s message. You still need the teaching that is like milk. You are not ready for solid food. ¹³Anyone who lives on milk is still a baby and knows nothing about right teaching. ¹⁴But solid food is for those who are grown up. They are mature enough to know the difference between good and evil.

6So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death. ²We should not return to the teaching about baptisms, ⁿ about laying on of hands, ⁿ about the raising of the dead and eternal judgment. ³And we will go on to grown-up teaching if God allows.

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Footnotes

nbaptisms The word here may refer to Christian baptism, or it may refer to the Jewish ceremonial washings.
nlaying on of hands The laying on of hands had many purposes, including the giving of a blessing, power, or authority.