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Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

And this we will do, if God permits.

And this will we do, if God permit.

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things regarding you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we are speaking in this way.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, by having served and by still serving the saints.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

And we desire that each one of you demonstrate the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear an oath by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

saying, "INDEED I WILL GREATLY BLESS YOU AND I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOU."

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, confirmed it with an oath,

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters within the veil,

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.