希伯來書 6
1 因此，讓我們擱下論基督的初級教理，而努力向成全的課程邁進；不必再樹立基礎，就是講論悔改，死亡的行為，信賴天主
Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ, let us advance to mature manhood and not be continually re-laying a foundation of repentance from lifeless works and of faith in God,
or of teaching about ceremonial washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgement. (aiōnios g166)
3 如果天主准許，我們就這育樣去作。
And advance we will, if God permits us to do so.
4 的確，那些曾一次被光照，嘗過天上的恩賜，成了有分於聖神，
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once for all been enlightened, and have tasted the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away-- (aiōn g165)
6 如果背棄了正道，再叫衪們自新悔改，是不可能的，因為衪們親自又把天主子釘在十字架上，公開加以凌辱。
it is impossible, I say, to keep bringing them back to a new repentance, for, to their own undoing, they are repeatedly crucifying the Son of God afresh and exposing Him to open shame.
7 就如一塊田地，時有雨水降於其上，時受潤澤：若出產有益於那種植者的蔬菜，就必蒙受天主的祝福；
For land which has drunk in the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes, indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.
8 但若生出荊棘疾藜來，就必被廢棄，必要受詛咒，它的結局就市焚燒。
But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
9 可是，親愛的諸位，我們雖這樣說，但對你們，我們確信你們將有更好的表現，更近於救恩，
But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends--a conviction of things which point towards salvation.
10 因為天主不是不公義的，甚至於忘掉了你們的善工和愛德，即你們為了衪的名，在過去和現在，在服事聖徒的事上所表現的愛德。
For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.
11 我們只願你們每一位表現同樣的熱，心以答達成你們的希望，一直到底。
But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;
12 這樣，你們不但不會懈怠，而且還會效法那些因信德和耐心而繼承恩許的人。
so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.
13 當天主應許亞巴郎的時後，因為沒有一個比天主大而能指著起誓的，就指著自己起誓，
For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
14 說：『我必多多祝福你，使你的後裔繁多。
saying, "Assuredly I will bless you and bless you, I will increase you and increase you."
15 這樣亞巴郎因耐心等待，而獲得了恩許。
And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised.
16 人都是指著比自己大的起誓；以起誓作擔保，了結一切爭端。
For men swear by what is greater than themselves; and with them an oath in confirmation of a statement always puts an end to a dispute.
17 為此天主願意向繼承恩許的人，充分顯示自己不可更改的旨意，就以起誓來自作擔保，
In the same way, since it was God's desire to display more convincingly to the heirs of the promise how unchangeable His purpose was,
18 好叫我們這些尋求避難所的人，因這兩種不可更改的事----在這些事上天主決不會撒謊----得到一種強有力的鼓勵，去抓住那擺在目前的希望。
He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to prove false, we may possess mighty encouragement--we who, for safety, have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.
19 我們拿這希望，當作靈魂的安全而又堅固的錨，深深地拋入帳幔的內部。
That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil,
