 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Regeneration (Theology) - 1833 - 221 pages
...them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me." " When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater he swore by himself; saying, surely, blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee.... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...the Hebrew text. " Men verily swear by the greater." — " When God made provOL. ix. — Ks u mise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." — Heb. vi. 13. The instances are not few in the Bible, in which the Divine Being is represented as... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1834 - 544 pages
...passage, which speaks of the same thing. See Rom. xvi, 25 ; 1 Cor. ii, 7 ; Tit. i, 2 ; 2 Tim. i, 9. 8. 'For when God made promise to Abraham, because He...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs o'f promise the immutability of his counsel,... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Society of Friends - 1834 - 518 pages
...epistle to the Hebrews, which has sometimes been adduced in support of the practice of swearing : " For, when God made promise to Abraham, because he...greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing will I bless thee, &c. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them... | |
 | J. Stephen Lang - Reference - 1999 - 516 pages
...works (Hebrews 4:4). 29. Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5:6). 30. Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee (Hebrews 6:14). 31. I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts (Hebrews 8:10).... | |
 | Dick Iverson - Christian heresies - 1989 - 184 pages
...that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore to Himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee...... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Religion - 1994 - 400 pages
...and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself, saying, surely blessing...bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. (11-15) i1. And we desire. Just as he mixed... | |
 | J. H. Waggoner - Religion - 1995 - 300 pages
...that ye he not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and muiriplying I will multiply thee. And so after he had patiently endured, he obt.ilned tho promise.... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - Religion - 2011 - 164 pages
...sent to bless us in turning us away from our iniquities. Acts 3:25,26. Confirmed by an Oath of God "When God made 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... | |
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying : — Surely blessing I will bless thee, And multiplying I will multiply thee. 
