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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, (6:13) Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee (6:14) And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise (6:15) For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife (6:16) Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: (6:17) That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (6:18) Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; (6:19) Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec
(6:20)
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