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For it is impossible that those who once received the light and tasted of that heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit
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and likewise have tasted the good word of God and the virtue of the age to come,
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and have backslidden, be renewed again by repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and putting him to an open shame.
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For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it and brings forth herbs in season for those by whom it is dressed receives blessing from God;
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but that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is near unto cursing, whose end shall be by fire.