A moment in scripture
Hebrews 6:16
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
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The surrounding passage
- Hebrews 6:14
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
- Hebrews 6:15
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
- Hebrews 6:17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Hebrews 6:18
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:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.