12. That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13. For when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14. Saying,
15. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.