Hebrews 6:16 DBY

¹⁴  saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;

¹⁵  and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

¹⁶  For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

¹⁷  Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

¹⁸  that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,