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That ye benotslothful,butfollowers of them who throughfaithandpatienceinherit the promises.
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For when God made promise to Abraham,because he couldswearbynogreater, he swarebyhimself,
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Saying, Surely*blessing I will blessthee,andmultiplying I will multiplythee.
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Andso, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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Formenverilyswearby the greater:and an oathforconfirmation is to them an end of allstrife.
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Wherein*God,willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of hiscounsel,confirmed it by[a] an oath:
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Thatbytwoimmutablethings,inwhich it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strongconsolation,who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
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Which hope we haveas an anchor of the soul,bothsureandstedfast,and which enterethinto that within the veil;
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Whither the forerunnerisforusentered, even Jesus,made an high priestforeverafter the order of Melchisedec.