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For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.