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But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned (6:8) But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak (6:9) For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister (6:10) And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: (6:11) That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises (6:12) 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
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