and (A)have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and (B)then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since (C)they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For (D)land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

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