Hebrews 6 - Revised Standard Version(RSVCI)

1Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2with instruction about ablutions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

3And this we will do if God permits.

4For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

5and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

6if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.

7For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

8 having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

16Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.

17So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath,

18so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

19Lev 16.2. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain,

20Ps 110.4. where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.