Hebrews 6:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Men indeed swear by a greater [than themselves], and with them in all disputes the oath taken for confirmation is final [ending strife].

American Standard Version (1901)

For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

Common English Bible

People pledge by something greater than themselves. A solemn pledge guarantees what they say and shuts down any argument.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For men swear by what is greater than themselves, and an oath as confirmation is the end of all their controversy.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for confirmation is the end of all their controversy.

Hebrews 6:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 14:22

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 21:23

now therefore swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

Genesis 21:24

And Abraham said, I will swear.

Genesis 31:53

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

2 Samuel 21:2

And the king called the Gib´e-onites, and said unto them; (now the Gib´e-onites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah:)

Exodus 22:11

then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

Galatians 3:15

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Hebrews 6:13

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,