²¹ (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him:

¹⁷ For ^[a]He testifies:

²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel ^(A)will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by the greater, and ^(A)an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. ¹⁷ Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to ^(B)the heirs of promise ^(C)the ^[a]immutability of His counsel, ^[b]confirmed it by an oath, ¹⁸ that by two ^[c]immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to ^(D)lie, we ^[d]might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope ^(E)set before us.