Hebrews 6:4
Good News Translation
For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God's light; they tasted heaven's gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit;

New Revised Standard Version
For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

New American Bible
For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened and tasted the heavenly gift and shared in the holy Spirit

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

it is.

Hebrews 10:26-29 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: . . .

Hebrews 12:15-17 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled: . . .

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

Matthew 12:31,32,45 Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. . . .

Luke 11:24-26 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. . . .

John 15:6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.

2 Timothy 2:25 With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;

2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will reward him according to his works:

2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. . . .

1 John 5:16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.

were once.

Hebrews 10:32 But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.

Numbers 24:3,15,16 He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up: . . .

and have.

Matthew 7:21,22 Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Luke 10:19,20 Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you. . . .

John 3:27 John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 6:32 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

Acts 8:20 Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Acts 10:45 And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

Acts 11:17 If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

Romans 1:11 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

1 Corinthians 13:1,2 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. . . .

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God.

Ephesians 3:7 Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power.

Ephesians 4:7 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

James 1:17,18 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. . . .

partakers.

Hebrews 2:4 God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

Acts 15:8 And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us:

Galatians 3:2,5 This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? . . .

Context
A Call to Maturity
3And this will we do, if God permit. 4For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come,…
Cross References
Matthew 12:45
Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

John 4:10
Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:2
This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?

Ephesians 1:18
The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God.

Hebrews 2:4
God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins:

Hebrews 10:29
How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 10:32
But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.

2 Peter 2:21
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

1 John 5:16
He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.

Hebrews 6:3
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