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10 For God is not unjust, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have demonstrated in his name, having ministered assistance to the saints, and still ministering.
11 But we earnestly desire that every one of you do manifest the same diligence, in order to obtain the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.
13 For God when he gave the promise to Abraham forasmuch as he had nothing greater to swear by, sware by himself,
14 saying, "Verily, blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee."
15 And so after long patient waiting he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by something greater than themselves; and an oath for confirmation is with them conclusive in all disputes.
17 And thus God, designing more abundantly to demonstrate to the heirs of promise the immutability of his will, pledged himself by oath,
18 that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;
19 which, as an anchor for our soul, we hold both sure and stedfast, and entering into the sanctuary within the vail,