Hebrews 6:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

Hebrews 6:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 22:11
Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
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.
Genesis 21:30-31
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. …
Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-20)

The apostle, having applied himself to the fears of the Hebrews, in order to excite their diligence and prevent their apostasy, now proceeds to apply himself to their hopes, and candidly declares the good hope he had concerning them, that they would persevere; and proposes to them the great encouragements they had in the way of their duty. I. He freely and openly declares the good hope he had conc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. for confirmation--not to be joined, as English Version, to “an oath”; but to “an end” [Alford]. I prefer, “The oath is to them, in respect to confirmation (of one’s solemn promise or covenant; as here, God’s), an end of all contradiction (so the Greek is translated, He 12:3), or “gainsaying.” This passage shows: (1) an oath is sanctioned even in the Christian dispensation as lawful; (2) that t…