Coverdale(i)
13 For whan God made promes to Abraham, because he had none greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,
14 and sayde: Surely I wil blesse the and multiplye ye in dede.
15 And so he abode pacietly, and optayned the promes.
16 As for men, they sweare by him that is greater then them selues: and the ooth is the ende of all stryfe to confirme the thinge amoge them.
17 But God, wyllinge very abundauntly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes the stablenes of his councell, added an ooth
18 yt by two immutable thinges (in the which it is vnpossible yt God shulde lye) we mighte haue a stronge consolacion: euen we, which are fled to holde fast the hope that is set before vs,
19 which (hope) we haue as a sure and stedfast anker of oure soule. Which (hope) also entreth in, in to those thinges that are within ye vayle,