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You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6:2 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
  • KJV Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
  • BSB instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
  • NKJV of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
  • NASB of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

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Quick answer

The foundational teachings include instruction about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. These are the elementary doctrines the readers should already have mastered.

Overview

This list rounds out the 'first principles' the readers ought to have moved beyond. These doctrines, many sharing roots with Old Testament and early Christian instruction, form the basics of the faith. The writer wants them established, not endlessly revisited, so believers can grasp the fuller revelation of Christ as high priest.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • 1 Cor 15:13–57But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
  • Rom 6:3–5Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
  • Acts 17:31–32because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
  • Acts 6:6whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
  • John 1:33I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
  • Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • John 4:1–2Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
  • Acts 19:2–6He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
  • Dan 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Acts 24:25As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
  • Acts 17:18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Acts 8:12–18But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
  • Matt 22:23–32On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
  • Eccl 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
  • Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Ezek 37:1–14Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
  • Heb 9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
  • Acts 10:47“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”
  • 1 Cor 10:2and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
  • Acts 16:33He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
  • John 3:25–26There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
  • Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
  • Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • 1 Th 4:14–18For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
  • Rom 2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
  • Mark 7:8“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”
  • Jude 1:14–15About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
  • 2 Tim 2:18men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
  • Rom 2:5–10But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
  • Luke 11:38When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
  • Acts 26:8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
  • Acts 4:2being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
  • 1 Cor 1:12–17Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
  • Acts 24:21unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”
  • Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
  • Luke 3:16John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

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Christ at the center

Hebrews is sustained worship of Christ: better than angels, Moses, and the priests; the great High Priest after Melchizedek who by one sacrifice perfects forever those he saves.

How Hebrews 6:2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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