For ground that drinks the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth vegetation usable to those people for whose sake[a] it is also cultivated, shares a blessing from God. But if it[b] produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to a curse, whose end is for burning.

But even if we are speaking in this way, dear friends, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and belonging to salvation.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 6:7 Literally “for the sake of whom”
  2. Hebrews 6:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“produces”) which is understood as conditional