Parallel Verses
Webster
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Holman Bible
For men swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute.
International Standard Version
For people swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all argument.
A Conservative Version
For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.
American Standard Version
For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Amplified
Indeed men swear [an oath] by
An Understandable Version
For people make vows by someone greater [than themselves], and an argument is settled when someone takes an oath [that he is telling the truth].
Anderson New Testament
For, verily, men swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.
Bible in Basic English
For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
Common New Testament
Men swear by one greater than themselves, and in all their disputes the oath is final for confirmation.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for when men swear by a superior, the ratifying what they say with an oath, puts an end to all further debate.
Darby Translation
For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
Godbey New Testament
For men swear by the greater: and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all controversy:
Goodspeed New Testament
For men make oath by something greater than themselves, and they accept an oath as settling finally any disagreement they may have.
John Wesley New Testament
For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.
Julia Smith Translation
For truly men swear by the greater: and the oath for confirmation to them the end of all controversy.
King James 2000
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For people swear by what is greater [than themselves], and the oath for confirmation [is the] end of all dispute for them.
Modern King James verseion
For men truly swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Men verily swear by him that is greater than themselves; And an oath to confirm the thing, is among them an end of all strife.
Moffatt New Testament
For as men swear by a greater than themselves, and as an oath means to them a guarantee that ends any dispute,
Montgomery New Testament
I am referring to the oath because men swear by what is greater than themselves, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
NET Bible
For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.
New Heart English Bible
For men swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Noyes New Testament
For men indeed swear by one who is greater, and the oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Sawyer New Testament
For men indeed swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all dispute;
The Emphasized Bible
For, men, by the greater one, swear, and, with them, an end of all gainsaying by way of confirmation is, the oath:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For men indeed swear by something greater than themselves; and an oath for confirmation is with them conclusive in all disputes.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Men, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute.
Weymouth New Testament
For men swear by what is greater than themselves; and with them an oath in confirmation of a statement always puts an end to a dispute.
Williams New Testament
For it is a custom among men to take oath by something greater than themselves, and an oath taken for confirmation settles any dispute among them.
World English Bible
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Worrell New Testament
For men swear by the greater; and the oath for confirmation is an end, to them, of every dispute:
Worsley New Testament
For men swear by a greater Being, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all controversy.
Youngs Literal Translation
for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath,
Themes
spiritual Development » Select reading, heb 511-14, 61-16
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Select readings
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 6:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Will Not Forget You
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 contradiction. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 22:11
Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept of it, and he shall not make restitution.
Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted my hand to the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear to 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 to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou hast sojourned.
Genesis 21:30-31
And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
Joshua 9:15-20
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
2 Samuel 21:2
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them, in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
Ezekiel 17:16-20
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Matthew 23:20-22
Whoever therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things upon it.
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,