Jubilee2000 - Hebrews - 6

6:1  Therefore, leaving now the word of the beginning [of the establishment] of the Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from works of death, and of faith in God,

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

6:3  And this we will indeed do, if God permits.

6:4  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

6:5  and likewise have tasted the good word of God and the virtue of the age to come,

6:6  and have backslidden, be renewed again by repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and putting him to an open shame.

6:7  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;

6:8  but that which bears thorns and briers [is] rejected and [is] near unto cursing, whose end [shall be] by fire.

6:9  But, beloved, we expect better things than these of you, [things] near unto saving health, though we thus speak.

6:10  For God [is] not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.

6:11  But we desire that each one of you show the same diligence until the end for the fulfillment of [your] hope,

6:12  that ye not become slothful, but imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

6:13  For when God promised unto Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

6:14  saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee and multiplying I will multiply thee.

6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

6:16  For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all controversy.

6:17  In which God, desiring to show more abundantly unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath,

6:18  that by two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

6:19  which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters even [into] that which is within the veil,

6:20  where [our] precursor, Jesus, has entered for us [and is] made high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.: