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  • Hebrews 6:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 5 and who have tasted the fine word of God and powers of the coming system of things,*

  • Hebrews 6:5
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 5 καὶ and καλὸν fine γευσαμένους having tasted θεοῦ of God ῥῆμα saying δυνάμεις powers τε and μέλλοντος of being about (to come) αἰῶνος, age,

  • Hebrews 6:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 5 and who have tasted+ the fine word of God and powers of the coming system of things,*+

  • Hebrews 6:5
    The Bible in Living English
    • 5 and tasted God’s good word and the powers of a future age,

  • Hebrews 6:5
    American Standard Version
    • 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

  • Hebrews 6:5
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 5 And have tasted God’s utterance to be sweet, Mighty works also of a coming age,

  • Hebrews 6:5
    King James Version
    • 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

  • Hebrews
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 6:5 w65 141; g64 11/22 28; w53 311; w48 180; w38 339

  • Hebrews Study Notes—Chapter 6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 6:5

      who have tasted the fine word of God: “The fine word of God” seems to refer to God’s promise to reward some humans with life in heaven. (2Co 5:5; Eph 1:18) Spirit-anointed Christians had “tasted” the promise when the holy spirit revealed to them that the hope of heavenly life was open to them. Thereafter, they looked forward to the full realization of the good things that God had promised them.

      powers of the coming system of things: Or “powers of the coming age.” The expression “coming system of things” refers to the future time when anointed Christians will rule with Christ in “his heavenly Kingdom.” (2Ti 4:18; see study note on Eph 2:7 and Glossary, “System(s) of things.”) Paul was writing to those who had been anointed with God’s holy spirit as “the token of what is to come.” (2Co 1:22 and study note) Many of them had witnessed Jehovah’s “signs and wonders.” (Heb 2:4 and study note) God used such miracles to demonstrate, among other things, what his Son would do as Ruler over “the inhabited earth to come.” (Heb 2:5 and study note) In a sense, these anointed Christians had already tasted, or experienced, what God’s power will accomplish in “the coming system of things.”​—Compare study note on Eph 1:3.

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