Hebrews 6:5

who have experienced God's good event and capabilities of the coming age,

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In The King James Version

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

In Context

4Because, it is impossible to bring back into repentance those who were once for all enlightened, who have partaken of the heavenly gift and were made sharers in the Holy Spirit,

6and yet have fallen away—they would be crucifying the Son of God all over again, just for themselves, holding Him up to contempt.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:20But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy,

Mark 6:20because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a just and holy man. And consulting him he would do many things; indeed, he would hear him with pleasure.

Hebrews 2:5Because it is not to angels that He has subjected the coming inhabited earth, about which we are speaking;

2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 6:2-9

Advancement in Holiness; First Principles. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Therefore 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, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the… Read the whole commentary →

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