Heb 6
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Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on
to perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of
faith toward God,
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of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the
dead, and of eternal judgment.
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And this will we do, if God permit.
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For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and
were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
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and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
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and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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For the land which has drunk the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings forth herbs
meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God:
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but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh to a curse; whose end
is to be burned.
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But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,
though we thus speak:
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for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which you showed toward
his name, in that you ministered to the saints, and still do minister.
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And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of
hope even to the end:
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that you be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit
the promises.
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For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore
by himself,
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saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.
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And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for
confirmation.
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Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the
immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
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that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have
a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before
us:
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which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and steadfast and entering
into that which is within the veil;
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where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after
the order of Melchizedek.