Geneva(i)
10 For God is not vnrighteous, that hee should forget your worke, and labour of loue, which ye shewed toward his Name, in that ye haue ministred vnto the Saints, and yet minister.
11 And we desire that euery one of you shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope vnto the ende,
12 That ye be not slouthfull, but followers of them, which through faith and patience, inherite the promises.
13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,
14 Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously.
15 And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promise.
16 For men verely sweare by him that is greater then themselues, and an othe for confirmation is among them an ende of all strife.
17 So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promise the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,
18 That by two immutable things, wherein it is vnpossible that God should lye, we might haue strong consolation, which haue our refuge to lay holde vpon that hope that is set before vs,
19 Which hope we haue, as an ancre of the soule, both sure and stedfast, and it entreth into that which is within the vaile,