The Concordant Literal New Testament

To The Hebrews

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The King James Version

Chapter 6 (CV)

¹ Wherefore, leaving the word dealing with the rudiments of Christ, we should be brought on to maturity, (not again disrupting the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith on God,
² of the teaching of baptizings, besides the imposition of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and of judgment eonian).
³ And this will we be doing, that is, if God may be permitting.
⁴ For it is impossible for those once enlightened, besides tasting the celestial gratuity and becoming partakers of holy spirit,
⁵ and tasting the ideal declaration of God, besides the powerful deeds of the impending eon,
⁶ and falling aside, to be renewing them again to repentance while crucifying for themselves the Son of God again and holding Him up to infamy.
⁷ For land which is drinking the shower coming often on it, and bringing forth herbage fit for those because of whom it is being farmed also, is partaking of blessing from God;
⁸ yet, bringing forth thorns and star thistles, it is disqualified and near a curse, whose consummation is burning.
⁹ Yet we are persuaded of better things concerning you, beloved, and those which have to do with salvation, even if we are speaking thus.
¹⁰ For God is not unjust, to be forgetting your work and the love which you display for His name when you serve the saints, and are serving.
¹¹ Now we are yearning for each one of you to be displaying the same diligence toward the assurance of the expectation until the consummation,
¹² that you may not be becoming dull. Now be imitators of those who through faith and patience are enjoying the allotment of the promises.
¹³ For God, promising Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, swears by Himself,
¹⁴ saying, "If, in sooth, it is blessing, I shall be blessing you, and multiplying, I shall be multiplying" you!
¹⁵ And thus, being patient, he happened on the promise.
¹⁶ For men are swearing by a greater, and to them an oath for confirmation is an end of all contradiction,
¹⁷ in which God, intending more superabundantly to exhibit to the enjoyers of the allotment of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposes with an oath,
¹⁸ that by two immutable matters, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong consolation, who are fleeing for refuge to lay hold of the expectation lying before us,
¹⁹ which we have as an anchor of the soul, both secure and confirmed, and entering into the interior beyond the curtain,
²⁰ where the Forerunner, Jesus, entered for our sakes, becoming Chief Priest according to the order of Melchizedek for the eon.

Chapter 6 (KJV)

¹ 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,
² Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
³ And this will we do, if God permit.
⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
⁵ And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
⁶ If 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.
⁷ For 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:
⁸ But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
⁹ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
¹⁰ For 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.
¹¹ And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
¹² That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
¹⁴ Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
¹⁷ Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
¹⁸ That 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:
¹⁹ Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
²⁰ Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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