Hebrews 6
1 Therefore, interrupting an explanation of the basics of Christ, let us consider what is more advanced, not presenting again the fundamentals of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward 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 baptism, and also of the imposition of hands, and of the 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 we shall do this, if indeed God permits it.
We will do this, if the Lord permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, and have even tasted of the heavenly gift, and have become sharers in 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 have yet fallen away, to be renewed again to penance, since they are crucifying again in themselves the Son of God and are still maintaining pretenses.
cannot again sin, and a second time be renewed to repentance; or a second time crucify and insult the Son of God.
7 For the earth accepts a blessing from God, by drinking in the rain that often falls upon it, and by producing plants that are useful to those by whom it is cultivated.
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 whatever brings forth thorns and briers is rejected, and is closest to what is accursed; their consummation is in combustion.
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 from you, most beloved, we are confident that there will be things better and closer to salvation; even though we speak in this way.
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 unjust, such that he would forget your work and the love that you have shown in his name. For you have ministered, and you continue to minister, to the saints.
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 Yet we desire that each one of you display the same solicitude toward the fulfillment of hope, even 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 so that you may not be slow to act, but instead may be imitators of those who, through faith and patience, shall inherit 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, in making promises to Abraham, swore by himself, (because he had no one greater by whom he might swear),
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: “Blessing, I shall bless you, and multiplying, I shall multiply you.”
and said: Blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And in this way, by enduring patiently, he secured the promise.
And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.
16 For men swear by what is greater than themselves, and an oath as confirmation is the end of all their controversy.
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 In this matter, God, wanting to reveal more thoroughly the immutability of his counsel to the heirs of the promise, interposed 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 so that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest solace: we who have fled together so as to hold fast to 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 This we have as an anchor of the soul, safe and sound, which advances even to the interior of 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,
