Thematic Bible
Hebrews 6:1 (show verse)
Therefore let us get past the elementary stage in the teachings about the Christ, advancing on to maturity and perfection and spiritual completeness, [doing this] without laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 6:2 (show verse)
of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [These are all important matters in which you should have been proficient long ago.]
Hebrews 6:3 (show verse)
And we will do this [that is, proceed to maturity], if God permits.
Hebrews 6:4 (show verse)
For [it is impossible to restore to repentance] those who have once been enlightened [spiritually] and who have tasted and consciously experienced the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:5 (show verse)
and have tasted and consciously experienced the good word of God and the powers of the age (world) to come,
Hebrews 6:6 (show verse)
Hebrews 6:7 (show verse)
For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
Hebrews 6:8 (show verse)
but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
Hebrews 6:9 (show verse)
But, beloved, even though we speak to you in this way, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and of things that accompany salvation.
Hebrews 6:10 (show verse)
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for His name in ministering to [the needs of] the saints (God’s people), as you do.
Hebrews 6:11 (show verse)
And we desire for each one of you to show the same diligence [all the way through] so as to realize and enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end,
Hebrews 6:12 (show verse)
so that you will not be [spiritually] sluggish, but [will instead be] imitators of those who through faith [lean on God with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in His power] and by patient endurance [even when suffering] are [now] inheriting the promises.
Hebrews 6:13 (show verse)
For when God made the promise to Abraham, He swore [an oath] by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear,
Hebrews 6:14 (show verse)
saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”
Hebrews 6:15 (show verse)
And so, having patiently waited, he realized the promise [in the miraculous birth of Isaac, as a pledge of what was to come from God].
Hebrews 6:16 (show verse)
Indeed men swear [an oath] by one greater than themselves, and with them [in all disputes] the oath serves as confirmation [of what has been said] and is an end of the dispute.
Hebrews 6:17 (show verse)
In the same way God, in His desire to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, intervened and guaranteed it with an oath,
Hebrews 6:18 (show verse)
so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.
Hebrews 6:19 (show verse)
This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells],
Hebrews 6:20 (show verse)
where Jesus has entered [in advance] as a forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.