Hebrews 6:3

Christian Standard Bible ®

And we will do this if God permits.

Parallel Translations

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.

Contemporary English Version
Let's grow up, if God is willing.

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

¹Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God, ²teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. ³And we will do this if God permits.⁴For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, who shared in the Holy Spirit, ⁵who tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age, ⁶and who have fallen away. This is because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding him up to contempt. ⁷For the ground that drinks the rain that often falls on it and that produces vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God. ⁸But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.

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
When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Genesis 6:14
“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.

Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Genesis 6:16
You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives.

Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.

Numbers 11:17
Then I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit who is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

Nehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years,and your Spirit warned them through your prophets,but they would not listen.Therefore, you handed them over to the surrounding peoples.

Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were only flesh,a wind that passes and does not return.

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.