Rotherham(i)
12 In order that, not slothful, ye may become, but imitators of them who, through faith and patience, were becoming heirs of the promises.
13 For, when to Abraham God made promise, seeing he had no one greater by whom to swear, He sware, by himself,––
14 saying––Truly, if blessing I will bless thee, and, multiplying, I will multiply thee;
15 And, thus, being patient, he attained unto the promise.
16 For, men, by the greater one, swear, and, with them, an end of all gainsaying by way of confirmation is, the oath:
17 Wherein God, being, more abundantly disposed to shew forth unto the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, mediated, with an oath,––
18 In order that, through means of two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to make himself false, a mighty consolation, we might have, who have fled along to grasp, the fore–lying hope,
19 Which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into the interior of the veil: