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12 that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.
13 For God, when making the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, swore by himself,
14 saying, "Surely, I will greatly bless you and greatly multiply you."
15 And so after patient waiting Abraham obtained what was promised.
16 For men swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them the end of all dispute.
17 In this case God being abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable purpose of his will gave the surety of an oath,
18 that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to be false, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled to lay hold on the hope that lies before us.
19 We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and it enters into the tent within the curtain