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# Hebrews 6

Hebrews 6 is chapter 6 of 13 in the Letter to the Hebrews. Here are all 20 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He warns them of the danger of falling by apostasy and exhorts them to patience and perseverance.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hebrews 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Therefore, interrupting an explanation of the basics of Christ, let us consider what is more advanced, not presenting again the fundamentals of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2. of the doctrine of baptism, and also of the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3. And we shall do this, if indeed God permits it.
4. For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, and have even tasted of the heavenly gift, and have become sharers in the Holy Spirit,
5. who, despite having tasted the good Word of God and the virtues of the future age, have yet fallen away,
6. to be renewed again to penance, since they are crucifying again in themselves the Son of God and are still maintaining pretenses.
7. For the earth accepts a blessing from God, by drinking in the rain that often falls upon it, and by producing plants that are useful to those by whom it is cultivated.
8. But whatever brings forth thorns and briers is rejected, and is closest to what is accursed; their consummation is in combustion.
9. But from you, most beloved, we are confident that there will be things better and closer to salvation; even though we speak in this way.
10. For God is not unjust, such that he would forget your work and the love that you have shown in his name. For you have ministered, and you continue to minister, to the saints.
11. Yet we desire that each one of you display the same solicitude toward the fulfillment of hope, even unto the end,
12. so that you may not be slow to act, but instead may be imitators of those who, through faith and patience, shall inherit the promises.
13. For God, in making promises to Abraham, swore by himself, (because he had no one greater by whom he might swear),
14. saying: “Blessing, I shall bless you, and multiplying, I shall multiply you.”
15. And in this way, by enduring patiently, he secured the promise.
16. For men swear by what is greater than themselves, and an oath as confirmation is the end of all their controversy.
17. In this matter, God, wanting to reveal more thoroughly the immutability of his counsel to the heirs of the promise, interposed an oath,
18. so that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest solace: we who have fled together so as to hold fast to the hope set before us.
19. This we have as an anchor of the soul, safe and sound, which advances even to the interior of the veil,
20. to the place where the forerunner Jesus has entered on our behalf, so as to become the High Priest for eternity, according to the order of Melchizedek.

## Hebrews 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quapropter intermittentes inchoationis Christi sermonem, ad perfectiora feramur, non rursum jacientes fundamentum pœnitentiæ ab operibus mortuis, et fidei ad Deum,
2. baptismatum doctrinæ, impositionis quoque manuum, ac resurrectionis mortuorum, et judicii æterni.
3. Et hoc faciemus, si quidem permiserit Deus.
4. Impossibile est enim eos qui semel sunt illuminati, gustaverunt etiam donum cæleste, et participes facti sunt Spiritus Sancti,
5. gustaverunt nihilominus bonum Dei verbum, virtutesque sæculi venturi,
6. et prolapsi sunt; rursus renovari ad pœnitentiam, rursum crucifigentes sibimetipsis Filium Dei, et ostentui habentes.
7. Terra enim sæpe venientem super se bibens imbrem, et generans herbam opportunam illis, a quibus colitur, accipit benedictionem a Deo:
8. proferens autem spinas ac tribulos, reproba est, et maledicto proxima: cujus consummatio in combustionem.
9. Confidimus autem de vobis dilectissimi meliora, et viciniora saluti: tametsi ita loquimur.
10. Non enim injustus Deus, ut obliviscatur operis vestri, et dilectionis, quam ostendistis in nomine ipsius, qui ministrastis sanctis, et ministratis.
11. Cupimus autem unumquemque vestrum eamdem ostentare sollicitudinem ad expletionem spei usque in finem:
12. ut non segnes efficiamini, verum imitatores eorum, qui fide, et patientia hæreditabunt promissiones.
13. Abrahæ namque promittens Deus, quoniam neminem habuit, per quem juraret, majorem, juravit per semetipsum,
14. dicens: Nisi benedicens benedicam te, et multiplicans multiplicabo te.
15. Et sic longanimiter ferens, adeptus est repromissionem.
16. Homines enim per majorem sui jurant: et omnis controversiæ eorum finis, ad confirmationem, est juramentum.
17. In quo abundantius volens Deus ostendere pollicitationis hæredibus, immobilitatem consilii sui, interposuit jusjurandum:
18. ut per duas res immobiles, quibus impossibile est mentiri Deum, fortissimum solatium habeamus, qui confugimus ad tenendam propositam spem,
19. quam sicut anchoram habemus animæ tutam ac firmam, et incedentem usque ad interiora velaminis,
20. ubi præcursor pro nobis introivit Jesus, secundum ordinem Melchisedech pontifex factus in æternum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1288: Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 699: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 679: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 655: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 598: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2810: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1820: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1544: The Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Hope has for its object only what is good, only what is future, and only what affects the one who hopes.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion, 8, c. 421 (On this theme: verse 19)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: The first rudiments of the Christian doctrine.
- Verse 4: “It is impossible” … The meaning is, that it is impossible for such as have fallen after baptism, to be again baptized; and very hard for such as have apostatized from the faith, after having received many graces, to return again to the happy state from which they fell.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jan 19, 2027: Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hebrews 6:10-20

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).