 | David Martyn Lloyd-Jones - Religion - 1971 - 598 pages
...strong consolation, and his argument is that God has taken an oath in this matter. 'For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.' God therefore 'confirmed it by an oath'. In other words, in referring to the practice of men taking... | |
 | Francis A. Schaeffer - Religion - 1994 - 436 pages
...New Testament itself relates the work of Christ to these cities. Hebrews says, For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Paul Langford - History - 1991 - 640 pages
...spelled out the spiritual implications of the multiplication of laws and oaths. One of his texts was 'An Oath for Confirmation is to them an End of all Strife'. In England, he argued, the reverse was the case. Oaths merely perpetuated strife. The State seemed... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 422 pages
...grant that I may faithful be To clearer light vouchsafed to me! HEBREWS 6:16-19 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner, E. J. Waggoner - Religion - 2011 - 164 pages
...promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater. He sware by Himself;...for men verily swear by the greater; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel,... | |
 | Frances Andrews - History - 2000 - 372 pages
...taking an oath as evidence in court, particularly in cases involving the clergy: 'For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife' (Hebrews 6:16). 23 The second comes from the Apocalypse: 'The Angel also, which John saw in the Apocalypse,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...let my conscience truly say, My soul in peace departs away. HEBREWS 6:76-6:79 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Religion - 2000 - 110 pages
...says, "Because he can swear by no greater than himself, he says. As I live, " &c. "For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of the counsel,... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Salvation - 2000 - 264 pages
...multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - Bible and law - 2000 - 468 pages
...promise to Abraham, because he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself. 16 For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
