Hebrews 6:11–20

¹¹And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence ¹so as to realize the ^afull assurance of ^bhope until the end,

¹²so that you will not be sluggish, but ^aimitators of those who through ^bfaith and patience ^cinherit the promises.

¹³For ^awhen God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He ^bswore by Himself,

¹⁴saying, “^aI will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

¹⁵And so, ^ahaving patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

^16aFor men swear by ¹one greater than themselves, and with them ^ban oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

¹⁷¹In the same way God, desiring even more to show to ^athe heirs of the promise ^bthe unchangeableness of His purpose, ²interposed with an oath,

¹⁸so that by two unchangeable things in which ^ait is impossible for God to lie, we who have ¹taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of ^bthe hope set before us.

¹⁹¹This ^ahope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which ^benters ²within the veil,

^20awhere Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a ^bhigh priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.