Hebrews 6:4-20
Read Hebrews 6 in full →4For in the case of those once having been aenlightened and having tasted of bthe heavenly gift and having become cpartakers of the Holy Spirit, 5and having atasted the good bword of God and the powers of cthe age to come, 6and having fallen away, it is aimpossible to renew them again to repentance, 1,bsince they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. 7For ground that drinks the rain which often 1falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those afor whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; 8but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is unfit and aclose 1to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
The Inheritance of the Promises
9But we are convinced about you, abeloved, of things that are better and that belong to salvation, though we are speaking in this way. 10For aGod is not unrighteous so as to forget byour work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having cministered and continuing to minister to the 1saints. 11And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence 1so as to realize the afull assurance of bhope until the end, 12so that you may not become dull, but aimitators of those who through bfaith and patience cinherit the promises.
13For awhen God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He bswore by Himself, 14saying, “aI will greatly bless you and I will greatly multiply you.” 15And so, ahaving patiently waited, he obtained the promise. 16aFor men swear by 1one greater than themselves, and with them ban oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. 171In the same way God, desiring even more to show to athe heirs of the promise bthe unchangeableness of His purpose, guaranteed it with an oath, 18so that by two unchangeable things in which ait is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of bthe hope set before us. 191This ahope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and confirmed and one which benters 2within the veil, 20awhere a forerunner has entered for us—Jesus, having become a bhigh priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.