 | John James - 1840 - 946 sider
...that ye be not slothful, but follower of *f who through faith and patience inherit the promis*5470 when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing 1 will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | 1866 - 580 sider
...all cases ; but we cannot think they are correct in so doing. God himself sanctions the custom : " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could...swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, ana multiplying I will multiply thee." " For 184 MISSIONS AT HOME... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1843 - 768 sider
...according with the imperfect views of those to whom his promise appertained : " For," says the Apostle, " 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. For men verily swear by the... | |
 | Mrs. Ann Fradgly - 1843 - 332 sider
...we have reason to love God for the full promises in Christ, and the certainty of their fulfilment. ' 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 ' after he had patiently endured... | |
 | John Cunningham - 1843 - 408 sider
...ages. The Lord sware in order to give men an assurance of the immutability of his purposes of mercy. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself."..." Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability... | |
 | Freeman Yates - 1843 - 174 sider
...shall he not do it? or hath spoken, and shall he not make it good?" (Numbers xxiii. 19.) Moreover, " 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... | |
 | 322 sider
...promises have been confirmed ; so that we might enjoy it, not in prospect, but in present possession. "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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1844 - 622 sider
...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 sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 712 sider
...that we might have stronger consolation still, he hath bound himself by his oath. Heb. vi. 13, &c., " art come to trust." She left her father and mother, and the land of her nativi sware by himself; saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1844 - 534 sider
...intermediate by oath. Now the object of this oath (as our apostle tells us, ver. 13.) was God himself: Wlien God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself; yet this, By myself' have I sworn, is more express in the Septuagint than in the... | |
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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. 
