Hebrews 6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Hebrews 6The Peril of Falling Away

1 toward perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God,

2 this, if God permits.

4 love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

11 having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

16Ex 22.11; Gal 3.15Humans, of course, swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all dispute among them.

17Ps 110.4; Heb 11.9In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it by an oath,

18Titus 1.2; Heb 7.19so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

19Lev 16.2; Heb 9.7We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain,

20Heb 4.14; 5.6where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.