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12 lest you become dull, but become imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."
15 And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and the oath for confirmation is an end of every dispute to them.
17 Thus God, wanting to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, guaranteed it by an oath,
18 in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled to take hold of the hope being set before us;
19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and secure, and which enters into the inner side of the veil,