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12 in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.
13 For God having promised Abraham, since he had no greater one by whom to swear, swore by himself,
14 saying, If indeed blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee:
15 and thus having waited long, he received the promise.
16 For men swear by the greater: and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all controversy:
17 but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,
19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is in the veil,