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 let us leave the commencement of the word of the Messiah, and let us proceed to the completion. Or will ye again lay another foundation for the repentance which is from dead works, and for the faith in God,
2 of [the] doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of [the] dead, and of eternal judgment; (aiōnios g166)
and for the doctrine of baptism, and for the laying on of a hand, and for the resurrection from the dead, and for the eternal judgment? (aiōnios g166)
3 and this will we do if God permit.
We will do this, if the Lord 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,
But they who have once descended to baptism, and have tasted the gift from heaven, and have received the Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the good word of God, and the power of the world to come, (aiōn g165)
6 and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do] the Son of God, and making a show of [him].
cannot again sin, and a second time be renewed to repentance; or a second time crucify and insult the Son of God.
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 earth that drinketh the rain which cometh often upon it, and produceth the herb that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated, receiveth a 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 if it should put forth thorns and briers, it would have reprobation, and be not far from a curse, and its end would be a burning.
9 But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.
But, in regard to you, my brethren, we are persuaded better things, and things pertaining to life, although 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 unrighteous, to forget your works, and your charity which ye have shown in his name, in that ye have ministered and do minister to the saints.
11 But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;
And we desire, that each one of you may show this same activity, for the completion of your hope, even to the end:
12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.
and that ye faint not; but that ye be emulators of them who by faith and patience have become heirs of the promise.
13 For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
For when God made the promise to Abraham, because there was none greater than himself by whom he could swear, he swore by himself;
14 saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
and said: Blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.
And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
For men swear by one greater than themselves: and in every controversy that occurs among them, the sure termination of it is by an oath.
17 Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,
Therefore, God, being abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise, that his promising was irreversible, bound it up in 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,
so that, by two things which change not, and in which God cannot lie, we, who have sought refuge in him, might have great consolation, and might hold fast the hope promised to us;
19 which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,
which is to us as an anchor, that retaineth our soul, so that it swerveth not; and it entereth into that within the veil,
