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