hebrews6
- 1But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
- 2Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
- 3Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
- 4And this will we do, if God permit.
- 5For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
- 6And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
- 7If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
- 8For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
- 9But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
- 10But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
- 11For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
- 12And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
- 13That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
- 14For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
- 15Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
- 16And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
- 17For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
- 18Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- 19That by two immutable things, in which it was 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:
- 20Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;