1 T herefore let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith to God,

Посему, оставив начатки учения Христова, поспешим к совершенству; и не станем снова полагать основание обращению от мертвых дел и вере в Бога,

2 W ith teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment.

учению о крещениях, о возложении рук, о воскресении мертвых и о суде вечном.

3 I f indeed God permits, we will proceed.

И это сделаем, если Бог позволит.

4 F or it is impossible those who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit,

Ибо невозможно--однажды просвещенных, и вкусивших дара небесного, и соделавшихся причастниками Духа Святаго,

5 A nd have felt how good the Word of God is and the mighty powers of the age and world to come,

и вкусивших благого глагола Божия и сил будущего века,

6 I f they then deviate from the faith and turn away from their allegiance— to bring them back to repentance, for (because, while, as long as) they nail upon the cross the Son of God afresh and are holding up to contempt and shame and public disgrace.

и отпадших, опять обновлять покаянием, когда они снова распинают в себе Сына Божия и ругаются.

7 F or the soil which has drunk the rain that repeatedly falls upon it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated partakes of a blessing from God.

Земля, пившая многократно сходящий на нее дождь и произращающая злак, полезный тем, для которых и возделывается, получает благословение от Бога;

8 B ut if persistently bears thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

а производящая терния и волчцы негодна и близка к проклятию, которого конец--сожжение.

9 E ven though we speak this way, yet in your case, beloved, we are now firmly convinced of better things that are near to salvation and accompany it.

Впрочем о вас, возлюбленные, мы надеемся, что вы в лучшем и держитесь спасения, хотя и говорим так.

10 F or God is not unrighteous to forget or overlook your labor and the love which you have shown for His name’s sake in ministering to the needs of the saints (His own consecrated people), as you still do.

Ибо не неправеден Бог, чтобы забыл дело ваше и труд любви, которую вы оказали во имя Его, послужив и служа святым.

11 B ut we do '> strongly and earnestly] desire for each of you to show the same diligence and sincerity in realizing and enjoying the full assurance and development of hope until the end,

Желаем же, чтобы каждый из вас, для совершенной уверенности в надежде, оказывал такую же ревность до конца,

12 I n order that you may not grow disinterested and become sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith ( by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are inheriting the promises.

дабы вы не обленились, но подражали тем, которые верою и долготерпением наследуют обетования.

13 F or when God made promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear,

Бог, давая обетование Аврааму, как не мог никем высшим клясться, клялся Самим Собою,

14 S aying, Blessing I certainly will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you.

говоря: истинно благословляя благословлю тебя и размножая размножу тебя.

15 A nd so it was that he, having waited long and endured patiently, realized and obtained what God had promised him.

И так Авраам, долготерпев, получил обещанное.

16 M en indeed swear by a greater, and with them in all disputes the oath taken for confirmation is final.

Люди клянутся высшим, и клятва во удостоверение оканчивает всякий спор их.

17 A ccordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath.

Посему и Бог, желая преимущественнее показать наследникам обетования непреложность Своей воли, употребил в посредство клятву,

18 T his was so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before.

дабы в двух непреложных вещах, в которых невозможно Богу солгать, твердое утешение имели мы, прибегшие взяться за предлежащую надежду,

19 w e have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul '> break down under whoever steps out upon it—a hope] that reaches farther and enters into within the veil,

которая для души есть как бы якорь безопасный и крепкий, и входит во внутреннейшее за завесу,

20 W here Jesus has entered in for us, a Forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.

куда предтечею за нас вошел Иисус, сделавшись Первосвященником навек по чину Мелхиседека.