Thomson(i)
10 For God is not unjust to forget your work, and the labour of that love which you have shewn for his name, by the assistance which you have given and continue to give to the saints.
11 Now we earnestly desire that every one of you would shew the same diligent concern for the full assurance of this hope to the end:
12 that you may not become languid, but imitators of them who through faith and long suffering inherit the promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, as he had none greater to swear by, he swore by himself,
14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee."
15 And so he, having waited with patience, obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation being to them an end of strife,
17 God, willing on this occasion to shew more fully to the heirs of this promise the immutability of his determination, interposed an oath,
18 that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to deceive, there might be strong consolation for us who have fled to take hold of this proffered hope,
19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast; and which entereth within the veil,