We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation.

For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself,

Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,

so that by these two unalterable things, which make it impossible for God to break his promise, we who have taken refuge with him may be greatly encouraged to seize upon the hope that is offered to us.

Let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we profess, for he who has given us his promise may be trusted.

Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.

Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now his promise is, "But once more I will make not only the earth but the very heaven to tremble!"