Hebrews 6:1-20

Godbey^{(i) 1} Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be carried to perfection; not again laying the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, ² of the teaching of baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³ And we will do this, if God may permit. ⁴ For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ⁵ and having tasted the beautiful word of God, and the dynamites of the coming age, ⁶ indeed having fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance; having crucified to themselves again the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. ⁷ For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon her, and bringing forth the herb nutritious to those by whom it is also cultivated, receives blessings from God: ⁸ but that which produces thorns and thistles, is reprobate, and nigh unto the curse; whose end is unto burning. ⁹ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things concerning you, and things appertaining to salvation, if indeed we do thus speak. ¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the divine love which you manifested in his name, having ministered to the saints, and ministering. ¹¹ But we desire each one of you to exhibit the same diligence unto the full assurance of hope unto the end: ¹² in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises. ¹³ For God having promised Abraham, since he had no greater one by whom to swear, swore by himself, ¹⁴ saying, If indeed blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee: ¹⁵ and thus having waited long, he received the promise. ¹⁶ For men swear by the greater: and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all controversy: ¹⁷ but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: ¹⁸ that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us, ¹⁹ which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is in the veil, ²⁰ whither Jesus the forerunner has entered in our behalf, having been made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.