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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 6, Verse 10

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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.
King James Version
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
American Standard Version
And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:
New English Translation
and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.
World English Bible
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
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That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
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Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
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And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.
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Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:
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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:
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Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
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Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;