LITV - Hebrews - 6

6:1  Because of this, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us be borne on to full growth, not laying down again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

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

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

6:4  For it is impossible for those being once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and becoming sharers of the Holy Spirit,

6:5  and tasting the good Word of God, and the works of power of a coming age,

6:6  then falling away, it is impossible for them again to renew to repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God, and putting Him to open shame.

6:7  (For the earth drinking in the rain often coming upon it, and producing plants fit for those for whom it is also worked, receives blessing from God;

6:8  "but bearing thorns and thistles," it is deemed unfit and near a curse, of which the end is for burning.) Gen. 3:17, 18

6:9  But, loved ones, even if we indeed speak so, we have been persuaded better things concerning you, even holding fast salvation.

6:10  For God is not unjust, to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed to His name, ministering to the saints, and now are ministering.

6:11  But we desire each of you to show the same eagerness, to the full assurance of the hope to the end;

6:12  that you not become dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsuffering are inheriting the promises.

6:13  For God having made promise to Abraham, since He had no greater to swear by, " He swore by Himself,"

6:14  saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Gen. 22:16, 17

6:15  And so, being long-suffering, he obtained the promise.

6:16  For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath to make things sure is to them the end of all gainsaying.

6:17  In which way, desiring to more fully declare to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,

6:18  that through two unchangeable things, in which it was not possible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, those having fled to lay hold on the hope set before us ,

6:19  which we have as an anchor of the soul, both certain and sure, and entering into the inner side of the veil, Lev. 16:12

6:20  where Jesus entered as forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.