LITV(i)
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,