Hebrews 6:9-20

⁹But, beloved, we are convinced of better things regarding you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we are speaking in this way. ¹⁰For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, by having served and by still serving the saints. ¹¹And we desire that each one of you demonstrate the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, ¹²so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.

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.