Hebrews 6
20 verses
The impossibility of restoring to repentance those enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, shared the Holy Spirit, tasted the goodness of God's word and powers of the age to come yet fallen away—because they are crucifying the Son of God all over again—establishes apostate impossibility grounded in the singular sacrifice already made, renewed crucifixion of Christ being impossible. The land analogy—land that drinks rain and produces useful vegetation is blessed, but land producing thorns and thistles is near to curse, ready to be burned—applies cosmic and agricultural language to human accountability, making fruitfulness or barrenness the measure of God's judgment. The more gentle assertion concerning the readers—we are convinced of better things concerning you, things that pertain to salvation, even though we speak in this way—temperers the warning with assurance, Paul not pronouncing judgment but invoking fear as motivational tool for perseverance. God's oath and promise as two unchangeable things—God's word sworn by himself since he has no one greater—ground the believer's hope in divine constancy, making God's character the ultimate guarantee of covenant permanence. The anchor of the soul (agkyra tēs psychēs) entering behind the curtain where Jesus has gone as forerunner (prodromos) establishes heavenly intercession as the believer's existential mooring, Christ's invisible presence accessed through faith even in the midst of earthly suffering. The chapter oscillates between warning and assurance, the threat of apostasy undercut by confidence in divine faithfulness and the believers' demonstrated attachment to Christ.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
God is faithful in every circumstance.. When we read this alongside the surrounding chapters, the narrative arc becomes ...
1
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,
1 0Open verse page →
2
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
0 0Open verse page →
3
And this will we do, if God permit.
0 0Open verse page →
God is faithful in every circumstance.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. Faith isn't the absence of doubt — it's ...
4
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,
1 0Open verse page →
5
And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
0 0Open verse page →
6
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.
0 1Open verse page →
7
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:
0 0Open verse page →
8
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
0 0Open verse page →
9
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
0 0Open verse page →
10
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.
0 0Open verse page →
11
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
0 0Open verse page →
12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
0 0Open verse page →
13
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
0 0Open verse page →
14
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
0 0Open verse page →
15
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
0 0Open verse page →
God meets us exactly where we are — broken, uncertain, yet chosen. God meets us exactly where we are — broken, uncertain...
16
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
1 0Open verse page →
17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
0 0Open verse page →
18
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:
0 0Open verse page →
19
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
0 1Open verse page →
20
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
0 0Open verse page →
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
No notes on this chapter yet. Be the first to write one!