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Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God, |
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the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. |
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And it will do, if God permit. |
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For it is impossible - once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, |
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and have tasted the good word of God and the powers, |
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and have fallen away, again to update repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and swear [to Him]. |
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Land, drank repeatedly upon it rain, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; |
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and thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end - burning.
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But, beloved, we hope that you will, at best, [the state] and salvation, though we thus speak. |
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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, having served the saints and serving. |
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And we desire that every one of you, for the full assurance of hope, the same diligence to the end, |
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that ye be not slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. |
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, |
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Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. |
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And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. |
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People swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is an end of all strife. |
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, |
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That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, we have initiated to take up the hope set before us, |
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that the soul is like a sure and steadfast anchor and enters within the veil, |
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where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. |
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