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Hebrews 6:16
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all contradiction.
Hebrews 6:16 · Webster Bible
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Hebrews 6:16 in other translations
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
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In context
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all contradiction.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to 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:
19 Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail;
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