Remember when God made His promise to Abraham? He had to swear by Himself, there being no one greater: 14 “Surely I will bless you and multiply your descendants.”[b] 15 And after Abraham had endured with patience, he obtained the promise he had hoped for. 16 When
swearing an oath to confirm what they are saying, humans swear by
someone greater than themselves and so bring their arguments to an end. 17 In
the same way, when God wanted to confirm His promise as true and
unchangeable, He swore an oath to the heirs of that promise. 18 So God has given us two unchanging things: His promise and His oath.
These prove that it is impossible for God to lie. As a result, we who
come to God for refuge might be encouraged to seize that hope that is
set before us. 19 That hope is real and true, an anchor to steady our restless souls, a hope that leads us back behind the curtain to where God is (as the high priests did in the days when reconciliation flowed from sacrifices in the temple) 20 and
back into the place where Jesus, who went ahead on our behalf, has
entered since He has become a High Priest forever in the order of
Melchizedek. |
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