MODERN LITERAL VERSION

6:1 Hence leaving the word of the beginning principles of Christ, we should carry onward to maturity; not putting down again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
6:2 of the teaching of {F} immersions* and of the laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of everlasting judgment.
6:3 And we might do this, if indeed* God permits.
6:4 For* those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and had become partakers of the Holy Spirit
6:5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the future world
6:6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, because they are again crucifying for themselves the Son of God and disgracing him.
6:7 For* the soil which has drunk the rainfall that comes often upon it and bears forth vegetation fit for them because of whom it is also cultivated, receives blessing from God.
6:8 But if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is unapproved and near to a curse; whose end is *for burning.

6:9 But, beloved, we have confidence of better things concerning you* and better things holding to salvation, even if we speak so.
6:10 For* God is not unrighteous to forget your* work and the labor of love* which you* showed toward his name, in that you* served the holy-ones and still are serving them.
6:11 But we are desiring each one of you* to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope even to the end;
6:12 that* you* should not become sluggish, but imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

6:13 For* when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear according to none greater, he swore according to himself,
6:14 saying, Absolutely in blessing, I will bless you and multiplying, I will multiply you. {Gen. 22:17}
6:15 And thus Abraham, having been patient, obtained the promise.
6:16 For* indeed, men swear according to the greater and the oath made *for confirmation is an end in every dispute of theirs.
6:17 In which God, intending to show even-more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable will of his counsel, mediated this with an oath;
6:18 that* through two unchangeable matters, 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 that lays before us.
6:19 This hope which we have as an anchor of the soul, is both secure and steadfast and entering into the inner side of the curtain;
6:20 where a forerunner Jesus entered on our behalf, having become a high-priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
{Footnotes: Heb 6:2 Or 'ceremonial washings.'}