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13 For God having promised Abraham, since he had no greater one by whom to swear, swore by himself, 14 saying, If indeed blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee: 15 and thus having waited long, he received the promise. 16 For men swear by the greater: and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all controversy: 17 but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: Hebrews 6:13-17, Godbey New Testament. Public domain.
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