Hebrews 6:4

The writer begins a solemn warning about those who were enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, and shared in the Holy Spirit. He describes people who experienced significant exposure to God's grace.

Cross-references · 33

• Heb 10:26–29For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
• 2 Pet 2:20–22For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• Matt 5:13“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
• John 15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
• Matt 7:21–22Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Heb 12:15–17looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• Matt 12:31–32Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
• Luke 11:24–26The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’
• Heb 10:32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
• Num 24:15–16He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
• Matt 12:45Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
• John 3:27John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Eph 2:8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• Gal 3:2I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• 2 Tim 2:25in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• 1 Tim 4:14Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
• 1 Jn 5:16If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
• Jas 1:17–18Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Acts 11:17If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
• Heb 2:4God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
• Eph 3:7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• 1 Cor 13:1–2If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
• Acts 10:45They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
• Num 24:3He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
• Luke 10:19–20Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
• John 6:32Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
• Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
• Eph 4:7But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
• Gal 3:5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• Acts 15:8God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
• 2 Tim 4:14Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
• Rom 1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

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