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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 6, Verse 11

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And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
King James Version
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
American Standard Version
that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
New English Translation
And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.
World English Bible
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
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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;
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To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;