13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, |
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. |
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. |
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. |
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: |
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: |