Hebrews 6
1 Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on [to what belongs] to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,
Therefore, omitting the elementary Christian teaching, let us go on to the perfection of Christian instruction, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 of [the] doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of [the] dead, and of eternal judgment; (aiōnios g166)
of the teaching with respect to immersions, and of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal condemnation. (aiōnios g166)
3 and this will we do if God permit.
And this we will do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of [the] Holy Spirit,
For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the coming age, (aiōn g165)
6 and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him].
if they fall away; since they again crucify in themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame.
7 For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;
For the land which drinks up the rain that comes often upon it, and produces herbs suitable for those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God.
8 but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end [is] to be burned.
But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.
9 But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.
But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering.
For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.
11 But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.
that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
13 For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
saying: Most surely will I abundantly bless you, and abundantly multiply you.
15 and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.
And so, when he had waited patiently, he received the promises.
16 For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
For, verily, men swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.
17 Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,
Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed an oath,
18 that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,
that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled to lay hold on the hope set before us;
19 which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,
which, hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in beyond the vail,
