E-3 And we'll do it, God willing.

4 For it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the gift of heaven, and have become partakers of the Holy Ghost

5 and those who have tasted the good word of God, as well as the powers of the world to come,

6 and those who have fallen away, to be renewed again unto repentance, if they on their part crucify the Son of God, and expose him to shame.

7 For the earth, which has drunk the rain that has fallen upon it many times, and brings forth herbs that are profitable for those who cultivate it, receives a blessing from God,

8 But she that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and is near to curse, and the end thereof is burning.

9 But though we say so, beloved, of you we are sure that you are in a better condition and near salvation,

10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which you have shown in his name, in ministering and ministering to the saints.

11 But we desire that each one of you will show the same zeal to the end to attain the fullness of hope,

12 that ye may not be slothful, but become imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

13 For God, having made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no one else, swore by himself,

14 saying, 'Verily, in blessing, I will bless you, and in multiplying, I will multiply you.'

E-15 And so by patience Abraham made the promise.

16 For men swear by the greatest, and to every dispute they have an unbreakable oath.

17 Wherefore God, desiring to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the certainty of his will, made use of the oath,

18 that in two things which are certain, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have found refuge, and have laid hold of the hope that is set before us, may have great encouragement,

19 which is like an anchor to the soul, and sure and firm, and penetrating within beyond the veil,

20 whither Jesus entered for us as a forerunner, becoming High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham when he was returning from the defeat of the kings, and blessed him,

2 to whom Abraham set aside tithes from all things, he is, first, according to the meaning of his name, the king of righteousness, and then the king of Salem, which means the king of peace,