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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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The immutability
Confirmed it
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John 10:10
The thief does not come, but that he may steal, and slay, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
The heirs
Hebrews 6:12
in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned concerning things not yet seen, being moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and became heir to the righteousness which is according to faith.
Romans 8:17
And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together.
Galatians 3:29
But if you belong to Christ then you are the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.
James 2:5
Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love?
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.
The immutability
Hebrews 6:18
that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,
Romans 11:29
for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.
Confirmed it
Hebrews 6:16
For men swear by the greater: and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all controversy:
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Luke 1:73
the oath which He swore to Abraham our father: