Hebrews 6:13-17 ▼

13 For God, having made promise to Abraham, seeing He was not able to swear by [any] greater, swore by Himself,

14 saying, “Blessing I will indeed bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you”;

15 and so, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise;

16 for men swear by the greater, and the oath [is] for confirmation of the end of all their controversy,

17 in which God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed by an oath,