Hebrews 6

¹Wherefore intermitting the word of the beginning of Christ, let us proceed to perfection, not again laying the foundation of penance from dead works, & of faith toward God,

²of the doctrine of baptisms, & of imposition of hands, & of the resurrection of the dead, & of eternal judgement.

³And this shall we do, if God will permit.

⁴For it is impossible for them that were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift, & were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

⁵have more-over tasted the good word of God, & the powers of the world to come,

⁶and are fallen, to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God, and making him a mockery.

⁷For the earth drinking the rain often coming upon it, & bringing forth grass commodious for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing of God.

⁸But bringing forth thorns and briers, it is reprobate, and very near a curse, whose end is, to be burnt.

⁹But we confidently trust of you, my best beloved, better things and nearer to salvation; although we speak thus.

¹⁰For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work & love which you have shewed in his name, which have ministered to the saints and do minister.

¹¹And our desire is that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

¹²that you become not slothful, but imitators of them which by faith and patience shall inherit the promises.

¹³For God promising to Abraham, because he had none greater by whom he might swear, he sware by himself,

¹⁴saying, Unless blessing I shall bless thee, and multiplying shall multiply thee.

¹⁵And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.

¹⁶For men swear by a greater than themselves: and the end of all their controversy, for the confirmation, is an oath.

¹⁷Wherein God meaning more aboundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the stability of his counsel, he interposed an oath:

¹⁸that by two things unmoveable, whereby it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a most strong comfort. Who have fled to hold fast the hope proposed,

¹⁹which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and going in into the inner parts of the veil,

²⁰where Jesus the precursor for us is entered, made a high Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.