MSTC(i)
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,
14 saying, "Surely I will bless thee, and multiply thee indeed."
15 And so after that he had tarried a long time, he enjoyed the promises.
16 Men verily swear by him that is greater than themselves; And an oath to confirm the thing, is among them an end of all strife.
17 So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath,
18 that by two immutable things — in which it was impossible that God should lie — we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us:
19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast. Which hope also entereth in, into those things which are within the veil,