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13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by hym selfe, 14 Saying: Surely, blessyng I wyll blesse thee, and multipliyng, multiplie thee. 15 And so after that he had taryed paciently, he enioyed the promise. 16 For men veryly sweare by the greater, and an oth for confirmation, is to them an ende of all stryfe. 17 Wherein God wyllyng very aboundauntly to shewe vnto the heires of promise, the stablenesse of his counsayle, confirmed by an oth: 18 That by two immutable thynges, in whiche it was vnpossible for God to lye, we myght haue a strong consolation, which haue fledde to holde fast the hope layde before vs: Hebrews 6:13-18, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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