Then let us fear, lest at some time, the promise to enter into his rest having been left, some of you may appear to have come short.

and thus having waited long, he received the promise.

but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

And on this account he is mediator of the new covenant, since there being death, unto the redemption of the transgressions unto the first covenant, those having been called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise:

And all these, having received the witness of the spirit through faith, did not obtain the promise: