Hebrews 6:1-8 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

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 6:4-8

6:4-8 For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, those who tasted the free gift from heaven, those who were made sharers in the Holy Spirit, those who tasted the fair word of God and the powers of the age to come, and who then became apostates, for they are crucifying the Son of God again for themselves and are making a mocking show of him. For when the earth has drunk the rain that comes often times upon it and when it brings forth herbage useful to those... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:4

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened ,.... The Syriac and Ethiopic versions render it, "baptized"; and the word is thought to be so used in Hebrews 10:32 . And indeed baptism was called very early "illumination" by the ancients, as by Justin Martyr F9 Apolog. 2. p. 94. , and Clemens Alexandrinus F11 Paedagog. l. 1. c. 6. p. 93. , because only enlightened persons were the proper subjects of it; and the word once here used seems to confirm this sense, since... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:5

And have tasted the good word of God ,.... Not the Lord Jesus Christ, the essential Word of God, who seems to be intended before by the heavenly gift; but rather, either the Scriptures of truth in general, which are the word of God, endited by him, and contain his mind and will; which he makes use of for conviction, conversion, instruction, and comfort; and which are preserved by him: and these are a good word; they come from him who is good; they are a revelation of good things; they make... read more

John Gill

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

If they shall fall away ,.... This is not supposed of true believers, as appears from Hebrews 6:9 nor is it to be supposed of them that they may fall totally and finally; they may indeed fall, not only into afflictions and temptations, but into sin; and from a lively and comfortable exercise of grace, and from a degree of steadfastness in the Gospel; but not irrecoverably: for they are held and secured by a threefold cord, which can never be broken; by God the Father, who has loved them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:7

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it ,.... Here the apostle illustrates what he had before been speaking of, by a simile taken from the earth, to which men in general answer, who are of the earth; earthy and unregenerate men and carnal professors are of earthly minds; they are like the earth when it was rude and without form, and cursed by God; and are as insensible as the earth: but the earth is particularly distinguished into that which is fruitful, and which is... read more

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

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

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 6:4-8

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:5

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 6:7

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