^{12 Ref} that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

^{13 Ref} For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

^{14 Ref} saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;'

^{15 Ref} and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

^{16 Ref} for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is' the oath,

^{17 Ref} in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

^{18 Ref} that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',

^{19 Ref} which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,