11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 Saying,
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 strife.
17 So God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: