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For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none 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 thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

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Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath

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that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:

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

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whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.