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4-6 After people have left the way of Christ, can you make them change their lives again? I am talking about people who once learned the truth, received God’s gift, and shared in the Holy Spirit. They were blessed to hear God’s good message and see the great power of his new world. But then they left it all behind, and it is not possible to make them change again. That’s because those who leave Christ are nailing him to the cross again, shaming him before everyone.

Some people are like land that gets plenty of rain and produces a good crop for those who farm it. That kind of land has God’s blessing.

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who have tasted the goodness(A) of the word of God(B) and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen[a] away, to be brought back to repentance.(C) To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God(D) all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 6:6 Or age, if they fall