Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed of it.

and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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

By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,