Hebrews 6:3

Contemporary English Version

Let's grow up, if God is willing.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And we will do this if God permits.

King James Version (1611)
And this will we doe, if God permit.

King James Version
And this will we do, if God permit.

English Standard Version
And this we will do if God permits.

New American Standard Bible
And this we will do, if God permits.

New Century Version
And we will go on to grown-up teaching if God allows.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And this we will do, if God permits.

Legacy Standard Bible
And this we will do, if God permits.

Berean Standard Bible
And this we will do, if God permits.

Complete Jewish Bible
And, God willing, this is what we will do.

Darby Translation
and this will we do if God permit.

Easy-to-Read Version
And that's what we will do if God allows.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And this will we doe if God permit.

George Lamsa Translation
If the LORD permits, this we will do.

Good News Translation
Let us go forward! And this is what we will do, if God allows.

Lexham English Bible
And this we will do, if God permits.

Literal Translation
And this we will do, if indeed God permits.

Amplified Bible
And we will do this [that is, proceed to maturity], if God permits.

American Standard Version
And this will we do, if God permit.

Bible in Basic English
Now we will do this, if God lets us.

Hebrew Names Version
This will we do, if God permits.

International Standard Version
And this we will do,Let us do this">[fn] if God permits.Acts 18:21; 1 Corinthians 4:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
If the Lord permit, we will do this.

Murdock Translation
We will do this, if the Lord permit.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this wyll I do, yf God permit.

English Revised Version
And this will we do, if God permit.

World English Bible
This will we do, if God permits.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And this we will do, if God permit.

Weymouth's New Testament
And advance we will, if God permits us to do so.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And this thing we schulen do, if God schal suffre.

Update Bible Version
And this we will do, if God permits.

Webster's Bible Translation
And this will we do, if God permit.

New English Translation
And this is what we intend to do, if God permits.

New King James Version
And this we will [fn] do if God permits.

New Living Translation
And so, God willing, we will move forward to further understanding.

New Life Bible
We will go on, if God lets us.

New Revised Standard
And we will do this, if God permits.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, this, will we do, if at least, God, permit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this will we do, if God permit.

Revised Standard Version
And this we will do if God permits.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And so will we do yf God permitte.

Young's Literal Translation
and this we will do, if God may permit,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And so wil we do yf God permytte.

Mace New Testament (1729)
of which we shall treat another time, if God permit.

Simplified Cowboy Version
but we're moving out.

Contextual Overview

¹ We must try to become mature and start thinking about more than just the basic things we were taught about Christ. We shouldn't need to keep talking about why we ought to turn from deeds that bring death and why we ought to have faith in God. ² And we shouldn't need to keep teaching about baptisms or about the laying on of hands or about people being raised from death and the future judgment. ³ Let's grow up, if God is willing. ⁴But what about people who turn away after they have already seen the light and have received the gift from heaven and have shared in the Holy Spirit? What about those who turn away after they have received the good message of God and the powers of the future world? There is no way to bring them back. What they are doing is the same as nailing the Son of God to a cross and insulting him in public! ⁷ A field is useful to farmers, if there is enough rain to make good crops grow. In fact, God will bless that field. ⁸ But land that produces only thornbushes is worthless. It is likely to fall under God's curse, and in the end it will be set on fire.

Bible Verse Review
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if: Acts 18:21, Romans 15:32, 1 Corinthians 4:19, 1 Corinthians 16:7, James 4:15

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.

Genesis 6:13
So he told Noah: Cruelty and violence have spread everywhere. Now I'm going to destroy the whole earth and all its people.

Genesis 6:14
Get some good lumber and build a boat. Put rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.

Genesis 6:15
Make it four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

Genesis 6:16
Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about eighteen inches between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three stories high and put a door on one side.

Genesis 6:18
But I solemnly promise that you, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law will be kept safe in the boat.

Numbers 11:17
While I am talking with you there, I will give them some of your authority, so they can share responsibility for my people. You will no longer have to care for them by yourself.

Nehemiah 9:30
For years, you were patient, and your Spirit warned them with messages spoken by your prophets. Still they refused to listen, and you handed them over to their enemies.

Psalms 78:39
God remembered that they were made of flesh and were like a wind that blows once and then dies down.

Isaiah 5:4
What more could I have done for my vineyard? I hoped for sweet grapes, but bitter grapes were all that grew.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this will we do, if God permit. That is, leave the rites and ceremonies of the law, which were the rudiments, or first principles of the Gospel, and go on to a more perfect knowledge of Gospel truths; and, not lay again as the foundation of the ministry, or insist upon them as if they were the main things, even the above articles of the Jewish creed, especially in the, way and manner in which they had been taught and learnt: the sense is, that the apostle and his brethren, in the ministry were determined to insist upon the more solid and substantial parts of the Gospel, and which tended to bring on their hearers to perfection; and that it became the believing Hebrews to seek after a greater degree of knowledge under the ministry of the word. It is, or at least should be, the determination of a Gospel minister, to preach Christ, and the great truths of the Gospel; and wheresoever God has called him to it, though there may be many adversaries, and though he may be reproached, calumniated, and deserted: resolution in preaching the Gospel, and adhering to it, is very commendable in a minister; and it is very laudable in hearers to attend to it, stand by it, and search further into it; and which both should determine upon with a regard to the will of God, "if God permit": God's permission is much to be observed in the ministry of the word, in giving gifts to men, in placing them out here and there, where they shall exercise them, in directing them to subjects, and in making their ministry useful and successful: and it may be observed in general, that nothing can be done, or come to pass, good or bad, but what God permits or wills to be done; no good things, no actions, civil, natural, moral, or spiritual; no evil things, the evil of punishment, afflictions, the persecutions of wicked men, the temptations of Satan, heresies, and even immoralities.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And this will we do - We will make these advances toward a higher state of knowledge and piety. Paul had confidence that they would do it (see Hebrews 6:9-10), and though they had lingered long around the elements of Christian knowledge, he believed that they would yet go on to make higher attainments.

If God permit - This is not to be interpreted as if God was “unwilling” that they should make such advances, or as if it were “doubtful” whether he would allow it if they made an honest effort, and their lives were spared; but it is a phrase used to denote their “dependence” on him. It is equivalent to saying, “if he would spare their lives, their health, and their reason; if he would continue the means of grace, and would impart his Holy Spirit; if he would favor their efforts and crown them with success, they would make these advances.” In reference to anything that we undertake, however pleasing to God in itself, it is proper to recognize our entire dependence on God; see James 4:13-15; compare the notes on John 15:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 6:3. And this will we do — God being my helper, I will teach you all the sublime truths of the Gospel; and show you how all its excellences were typified by the law, and particularly by its sacrificial system.