6:1 Therefore leaving the ①elementary teaching about the ②Christ, let us press on to ③maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
▷ ①Lit word of the beginning ②I.e., Messiah ③Or perfection
6:2 of instruction about ①washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
▷ ①Or baptisms
6:3 And this we will do, if God permits.
6:4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
6:5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6:6 and then have ①fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, ②since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
▷ ①Or committed apostasy; i.e., renounced the faith ②Or while
6:7 For ground that drinks the rain which often ①falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
▷ ①Lit comes
6:8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and ①close to being cursed, and ②it ends up being burned.
▷ ①Lit near to a curse ②Lit whose end is for burning
6:9 But, beloved, we are convinced of better things regarding you, and things that ①accompany salvation, even though we are speaking in this way.
▷ ①Or belong to
6:10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, by having served and by still serving the ①saints.
▷ ①Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
6:11 And we desire that each one of you demonstrate the same diligence ①so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,
▷ ①Lit to the full
6:12 so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.
6:13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear an oath by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
6:14 saying, “INDEED I WILL GREATLY BLESS YOU AND I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOU.”
6:15 And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.
6:16 For people swear an oath by ①one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
▷ ①Or Him who is greater
6:17 ①In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise ②the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, ③confirmed it with an oath,
▷ ①Lit In which ②Lit the unchangeableness of His ③Or mediated
6:18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us.
6:19 ①This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters ②within the veil,
▷ ①Lit Which hope we have ②Or inside
6:20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.