Hebrews 6:3

Easy-to-Read Version

And that's what we will do if God allows.

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.

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.

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

¹So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not have to keep going back to where we started. We began our new life by turning away from the evil we did in the past and by believing in God. That's when we were taught about baptisms, laying hands on people, the resurrection of those who have died, and the final judgment. Now we need to go forward to more mature teaching. ³ And that's what we will do if God allows. ⁴After people have left the way of Christ, can you make them change their lives again? I am talking about people who once learned the truth, received God's gift, and shared in the Holy Spirit. They were blessed to hear God's good message and see the great power of his new world. But then they left it all behind, and it is not possible to make them change again. That's because those who leave Christ are nailing him to the cross again, shaming him before everyone. ⁷ Some people are like land that gets plenty of rain and produces a good crop for those who farm it. That kind of land has God's blessing. ⁸ But other people are like land that grows only thorns and weeds. It is worthless and in danger of being cursed by God. It will be destroyed by 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
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.

Genesis 6:13
So God said to Noah, "Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.

Genesis 6:14
Use cypress wood and build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the boat and cover it with tar inside and out.

Genesis 6:15
"This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat about 1 cubit below the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make three floors in the boat: a top deck, a middle deck, and a lower deck.

Genesis 6:18
I will make a special agreement with you. You, your wife, your sons, and their wives will all go into the boat.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive.

Numbers 11:17
Then I will come down and speak with you there. The Spirit is on you now. But I will also give some of that Spirit to them. Then they will help you take care of the people. In this way you will not have to be responsible for these people alone.

Nehemiah 9:30
"You were very patient with our ancestors. You let them mistreat you for many years. You warned them with your Spirit. You sent the prophets to warn them. But our ancestors didn't listen. So you gave them to people in other countries.

Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were only people, like a wind that blows and then is gone.

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.