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| 1 Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God, |
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| 2 of the doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment; |
We need to develop "The graces of Christian character; the doctrines being only a means to an end, and not the end itself." R2052:11 |
| 3 and this will we do if God permit. |
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| 4 For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, |
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| 5 and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come, |
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| 6 and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him2. |
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| 7 For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God; |
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| 8 but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned. |
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| 9 But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus. |
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| 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering. |
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| 11 But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end; |
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| 12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises. |
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| 13 For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself, |
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| 14 saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee; |
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| 15 and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise. |
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| 16 For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure. |
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| 17 Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath, |
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| 18 that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, |
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| 19 which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil, |
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| 20 where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec. |
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