LITV(i)
10 For God is not unjust, to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed to His name, ministering to the saints, and now are ministering.
11 But we desire each of you to show the same eagerness, to the full assurance of the hope to the end;
12 that you not become dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsuffering are inheriting the promises.
13 For God having made promise to Abraham, since He had no greater to swear by, " He swore by Himself,"
14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Gen. 22:16, 17
15 And so, being long-suffering, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath to make things sure is to them the end of all gainsaying.
17 In which way, desiring to more fully declare to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,
18 that through two unchangeable things, in which it was not possible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, those having fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,
19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, both certain and sure, and entering into the inner side of the veil, Lev. 16:12