13For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
14saying, “I
WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I
WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU.”
15And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.
16For men swear by one greater
than themselves, and with them an oath
given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
17In
the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the
promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,
18so
that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to
lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take
hold of the hope set before us.
19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a
hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,
20where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
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