Chapter 6
Therefore 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,
2Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of
laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3And this will we do, if God permit.
4For it is impossible
for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5And have tasted the good word
of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6If 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.
7For 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:
8But that
which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto
cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9But, beloved, we are
persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though
we thus speak.
10For 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.
11And we desire that every one
of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises.
13For when God made promise to Abraham,
because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14Saying,
Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation
is to them an end of all strife.
17Wherein God, willing more
abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath:
18That 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:
19Which
hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and
which entereth into that within the veil;
20Whither the forerunner is for
us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order
of Melchisedec.
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