Hebrews 6:19

Hope Comfort Faith God's presence

¹⁷ So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

¹⁸ Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

²⁰ where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
KJV: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
WEB: This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,
ASV: which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
DARBY: which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,
BLB: which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and firm and entering into that within the veil,

ÅB: det vi har som et anker for sjelen, et som er trygt og fast og når innenfor forhenget,
OTB: Vi har dette håpet som et anker for sjelen, fast og sikkert, og det går inn i det indre helligdommen bak forhenget,
B1930: det vi har som et anker for sjelen, et som er trygt og fast og når innenfor forhenget,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 43:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
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Romans 5:5–10
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
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Romans 8:28–39
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
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Hebrews 9:7
But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
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Leviticus 16:15
Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
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Leviticus 16:2
And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
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Colossians 3:1
Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
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Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
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