| 1 | Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection -- not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, | Heb 5:12-14 |
| 2 | of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. | Heb 9:10 Mk 7:4 Mk 7:8 Lk 11:38 Mt 3:14 Mt 20:22 Mt 20:23 Mt 28:19 Mk 16:16 Lk 3:16 Lk 12:50 Jn 1:33 Jn 3:25 Jn 3:26 Jn 4:1 Jn 4:2 Ac 2:38 Ac 2:41 Ac 8:12 Ac 8:13 Ac 8:16 Ac 8:36-38 Ac 10:47 Ac 16:15 Ac 16:33 Ac 19:2-5 Ro 6:3 Ro 6:4 1Co 1:12-17 1Co 10:2 1Co 12:13 Col 2:12 1Pe 3:20 1Pe 3:21 |
| 3 | This will we do, if God permits. | Ac 18:21 Ro 15:32 1Co 4:19 1Co 16:7 Jm 4:15 |
| 4 | For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, | Heb 10:26-29 Heb 12:15-17 Mt 5:13 Mt 12:31 Mt 12:32 Mt 12:45 Lk 11:24-26 Jn 15:6 2Ti 2:25 2Ti 4:14 2Pe 2:20-22 1Jn 5:16 |
| 5 | and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, | Mt 13:20 Mt 13:21 Mk 4:16 Mk 4:17 Mk 6:20 Lk 8:13 1Pe 2:3 2Pe 2:20 |
| 6 | and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. | Heb 6:4 Ps 51:10 Isa 1:28 2Ti 2:25 |
| 7 | For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; | Dt 28:11 Dt 28:12 Ps 65:9-13 Ps 104:11-13 Isa 55:10-13 Jl 2:21-26 Jm 5:7 |
| 8 | but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near a curse, whose end is to be burned. | Heb 12:17 Gn 3:17 Gn 3:18 Gn 4:11 Gn 5:29 Dt 29:28 Jb 31:40 Ps 107:34 Isa 5:1-7 Jer 17:6 Jer 44:22 Mk 11:14 Mk 11:21 Lk 13:7-9 |
| 9 | But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, though we speak like this, | Heb 6:4-6 Heb 6:10-6 Heb 10:34 Heb 10:39 Php 1:6 Php 1:7 1Th 1:3 1Th 1:4 |
| 10 | for God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served to the saints, and still do serve them. | Pr 14:31 Mt 10:42 Mt 25:40 Jn 13:20 |
| 11 | We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, | Ro 12:8 Ro 12:11 1Co 15:58 Ga 6:9 Php 1:9-11 Php 3:15 1Th 4:10 2Th 3:13 2Pe 1:5-8 2Pe 3:14 |
| 12 | that you won`t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. | Heb 5:11 Pr 12:24 Pr 13:4 Pr 15:19 Pr 18:9 Pr 24:30-34 Mt 25:26 Ro 12:11 2Pe 1:10 |
| 13 | For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, | Heb 6:16-18 Gn 22:15-18 Ezk 32:13 Ps 105:9 Ps 105:10 Isa 45:23 Jer 22:5 Jer 49:13 Mic 7:20 Lk 1:73 |
| 14 | saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you." | Gn 17:2 Gn 48:4 Ex 32:13 Dt 1:10 Ne 9:23 |
| 15 | Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. | Heb 6:12 Gn 12:2 Gn 12:3 Gn 15:2-6 Gn 17:16 Gn 17:17 Gn 21:2-7 Ex 1:7 Hab 2:2 Hab 2:3 Ro 4:17-25 |
| 16 | For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. | Heb 6:13 Gn 14:22 Gn 21:23 Mt 23:20-22 |
| 17 | Wherein God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; | Ps 36:8 So 5:1 Isa 55:7 Jn 10:10 1Pe 1:3 |
| 18 | that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us, | Heb 3:11 Heb 7:21 Ps 110:4 Mt 24:35 |
| 19 | which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; | Ac 27:29 Ac 27:40 |
| 20 | where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. | Heb 2:10 Jn 14:2 Jn 14:3 |
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