Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any one of you be judged to have come short of it.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

And so Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath,

By faith he lived in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise;