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13For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear an oath by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14saying, “indeed I will greatly bless you and I will greatly multiply you.” 15And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. 16For people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute. 17In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, confirmed it with an oath, 18so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us. 19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters within the veil, 20where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.