²¹ (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

⁴ The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

¹⁷ For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

¹⁷ Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

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: