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Wherefore leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith Godward,
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of teaching of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of dead [men], and of judgment everlasting;
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and this will we do if God permit.
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For [it is] impossible to renew again unto repentance those that were once enlightened
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and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit and tasted God’s good word, and powers of an age to come,
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and have fallen away, while for themselves crucifying and making a show of the Son of God.
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For ground that drank the rain coming oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for those for whose sake also it is tilled, participateth in blessing from God;
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but if bringing forth thorns and briars, [is] worthless and near a curse, whose end [is] for burning.
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But of you, beloved, we are persuaded things better and connected with salvation, if even thus we speak.
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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed unto his name, in that ye ministered to his saints and do minister.
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But we desire earnestly that each of you should show the same diligence unto the full assurance of hope until the end,
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that ye become not sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and long-suffering inherit the promises.
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For God when he made promise to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
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saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thee,
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and thus after long-suffering he obtained the promise.
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For men, indeed, swear by the greater, and to them the oath for confirmation [is] an end of all dispute.
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Wherein God willing to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel,
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intervened by an oath, that by two unchangeable things in which [it was] impossible that God should lie we might have strong encouragement that fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us,
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which we have as the soul’s anchor both secure and firm and entering into the inner [side] of the veil,
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where entered forerunner for us Jesus, become forever high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.