Thematic Bible: Confirmed with an oath


Thematic Bible



the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants

Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath, so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

and said, "'I solemnly swear by my own name,' decrees the Lord, 'that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.

the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,


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