58:006:010 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

58:006:011 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

58:006:012 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

58:006:013 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

58:006:014 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

58:006:015 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

58:006:016 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

58:006:017 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

58:006:018 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

58:006:019 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;