Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,