1Therefore 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,⇆ compare2Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.⇆ compare3And this will we do, if God permit.⇆ compare4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,⇆ compare5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,⇆ compare6If 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.⇆ compare7For 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:⇆ compare8But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.⇆ compare9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.⇆ compare10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.⇆ compare11And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:⇆ compare12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.⇆ compare13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,⇆ compare14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.⇆ compare15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.⇆ compare16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.⇆ compare17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:⇆ compare18That 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:⇆ compare19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;⇆ compare20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.⇆ compare