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in which it was impossible that God should lie

Hebrews 6:9-20 But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;

and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

Christ Jesus our hope

1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope

a living hope

1 Peter 1:3-10 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, reserved in the heavens for you,

who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom though not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with the glory,

receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens

Colossians 1:3-10 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continually when praying for you,

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,

on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,

which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

who has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;