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Covenant » Of God with men » God faithful to
Covenant » The lord making a covenant with israel
Covenant » Of God with men » Confirmed with an oath
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
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Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled to lay hold on the hope set before us;
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
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Covenant » Instances of » Abraham
Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called. That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity. For the word of the promise is this: At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. read more.
Not only so, but when Rebecca had conceived by one, even our father Isaac, (the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,) it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger; as it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Not only so, but when Rebecca had conceived by one, even our father Isaac, (the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,) it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger; as it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Covenant » The covenant with abraham
Oath » Attributed to God
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying: Most surely will I abundantly bless you, and abundantly multiply you.
But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?
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For the law makes men high priests, who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, makes the Son, who is perfected forever.
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Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,
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For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.
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so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.
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and swore by him that lives from age to age, who created the heaven and the things that are in it, and the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, That time should no longer intervene,
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(for those priests were made such without an oath, but this one with an oath, by him that said to him, The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec;)
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