Hebrews 6 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Peril of Falling Away

1Therefore let us get past the elementary stage in the teachings about the Christ, advancing on to maturity and perfection and spiritual completeness, without laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

3And we will do this, if God permits.

4For those who have once been enlightened and who have tasted and consciously experienced the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

5and have tasted and consciously experienced the good word of God and the powers of the age (world) to come,

6and then have fallen away—it is impossible to bring them back again to repentance, since they again nail the Son of God on the cross, and are holding Him up again to public disgrace.

7For 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;

8but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

11And we desire for each one of you to show the same diligence so as to realize and enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end,

12so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and by patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

13For when God made the promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear,

14saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

15And so, having patiently waited, he realized the promise.

16Indeed men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them the oath serves as confirmation and is an end of the dispute.

17In 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,

18so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.

19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil,

20where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.