Hebrews 6:13-18
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13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
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14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
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15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
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17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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18 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: