Hebrews 6:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

Hebrews 6:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 8:13
They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
1 Peter 2:3
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Matthew 13:20-21
But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; …
Hebrews 2:5
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
Mark 4:16-17
And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have here the apostle’s advice to the Hebrews—that they would grow up from a state of childhood to the fullness of the stature of the new man in Christ. He declares his readiness to assist them all he could in their spiritual progress; and, for their greater encouragement, he puts himself with them: Let us go on. Here observe, In order to their growth, Christians must leave the principles of th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. tasted the good word of God--distinct from “tasted OF (genitive) the heavenly gift”; we do not yet enjoy all the fulness of Christ, but only have a taste OF Him, the heavenly gift now; but believers may taste the whole word (accusative case) of God already, namely, God’s “good word of promise.” The Old Testament promise of Canaan to Israel typified “the good word of God’s” promise of the heaven…