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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

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Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

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And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.

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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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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:

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Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil

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Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.