Let us therefore fear, lest at any time, although there is left behind a promise of entering into his rest, - any one from amongst you should be deemed, to have come short;

For, when to Abraham God made promise, seeing he had no one greater by whom to swear, He sware, by himself, -

And, thus, being patient, he attained unto the promise.

Wherein God, being, more abundantly disposed to shew forth unto the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, mediated, with an oath, -

And, for this cause, of a new covenant, is he mediator, - to the end that, death coming to pass for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the age-abiding inheritance;

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

By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, in tents, dwelling, along with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;

And, these all, though they obtained witness through their faith, yet bare not away, the promise: