Hebrews 6:1-3 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 6:1-8

We have here the apostle's advice to the Hebrews?that they would grow up from a state of childhood to the fullness of the stature of the new man in Christ. He declares his readiness to assist them all he could in their spiritual progress; and, for their greater encouragement, he puts himself with them: Let us go on. Here observe, In order to their growth, Christians must leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ. How must they leave them? They must not lose them, they must not despise... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 6:1-3

6:1-3 So, then, let us leave elementary teaching about Christ behind us and let us be home onwards to full maturity; for we cannot go on laying the foundations all the time and teaching about repentance from dead works and giving information about washings, about the laying on of hands, about the resurrection from the dead and upon that sentence which lasts to all eternity. God willing, this very thing we will do. The writer to the Hebrews was certain of the necessity of progress in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:1

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ ,.... The Gospel is the doctrine of Christ, and is so called, because Christ, as God, is the author of it; as Mediator, he received it from his Father; as man, he was the preacher of it; and he is also the sum and substance of it: the principles of this doctrine are either the easier parts of the Gospel, called milk in the latter part of the preceding chapter; which are not to be left with dislike and contempt, nor so as to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:2

Of the doctrine of baptisms ,.... Some read this divisively, "baptism and doctrine", as the Ethiopic version; as if the one respected the ordinance of baptism, and the other the ministry of the word; but it is best to read them conjunctively: and by which most understand the Gospel ordinance of water baptism, so called by a change of number, the plural for the singular, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, who render it baptism; or because of the different persons baptized, and times of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:3

And this will we do, if God permit. That is, leave the rites and ceremonies of the law, which were the rudiments, or first principles of the Gospel, and go on to a more perfect knowledge of Gospel truths; and, not lay again as the foundation of the ministry, or insist upon them as if they were the main things, even the above articles of the Jewish creed, especially in the, way and manner in which they had been taught and learnt: the sense is, that the apostle and his brethren, in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:1

Therefore - Because ye have been so indolent, slow of heart, and have still so many advantages. Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ - Ceasing to continue in the state of babes, who must be fed with milk - with the lowest doctrines of the Gospel, when ye should be capable of understanding the highest. Let us go on unto perfection - Let us never rest till we are adult Christians - till we are saved from all sin, and are filled with the spirit and power of Christ. The... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:2

Of the doctrine of baptisms - " There were two things," says Dr. Owen, "peculiar to the Gospel, the doctrine of it and the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Doctrine is called baptism, Deuteronomy 32:2 ; hence the people are said to be baptized to Moses, when they were initiated into his doctrines, 1 Corinthians 11:2 . The baptism of John was his doctrine, Acts 19:3 ; and the baptism of Christ was the doctrine of Christ, wherewith he was to sprinkle many nations, Isaiah 52:15 . This is the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:3

And this will we do - God being my helper, I will teach you all the sublime truths of the Gospel; and show you how all its excellences were typified by the law, and particularly by its sacrificial system. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:1

Verse 1 1.Therefore, leaving, etc. To his reproof he joins this exhortation, — that leaving first principles they were to proceed forward to the goal. For by the word of beginning he understands the first rudiments, taught to the ignorant when received into the Church. Now, he bids them to leave these rudiments, not that the faithful are ever to forget them, but that they are not to remain in them; and this idea appears more clear from what follows, the comparison of a foundation; for in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:2

Verse 2 2.Of the doctrine of baptisms, etc. Some read them separately, “of baptisms and of doctrine;” but I prefer to connect them, though I explain them differently from others; for I regard the words as being in apposition, as grammarians say, according to this form, “Not laying again the foundation of repentance, of faith in God, of the resurrection of the dead, which is the doctrine of baptisms and of the laying on of hands.” If therefore these two clauses, the doctrine of baptisms and of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 6:1-8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 6:1-3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 6:2

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