Godbey - Hebrews - 6

6:1  Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be carried to perfection; not again laying the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

6:2  of the teaching of baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

6:3  And we will do this, if God may permit.

6:4  For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

6:5  and having tasted the beautiful word of God, and the dynamites of the coming age,

6:6  indeed having fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance; having crucified to themselves again the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.

6:7  For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon her, and bringing forth the herb nutritious to those by whom it is also cultivated, receives blessings from God:

6:8  but that which produces thorns and thistles, is reprobate, and nigh unto the curse; whose end is unto burning.

6:9  But, beloved, we are persuaded better things concerning you, and things appertaining to salvation, if indeed we do thus speak.

6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the divine love which you manifested in his name, having ministered to the saints, and ministering.

6:11  But we desire each one of you to exhibit the same diligence unto the full assurance of hope unto the end:

6:12  in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.

6:13  For God having promised Abraham, since he had no greater one by whom to swear, swore by himself,

6:14  saying, If indeed blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee:

6:15  and thus having waited long, he received the promise.

6:16  For men swear by the greater: and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all controversy:

6:17  but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

6:18  that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,

6:19  which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is in the veil,

6:20  whither Jesus the forerunner has entered in our behalf, having been made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.