Therefore let us fear, [while there] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of [it].

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

And so, [by] persevering, he obtained the promise.

In the same way God, [because he] wanted to show even more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his resolve, guaranteed [it] with an oath,

And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, [because] a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions [committed] during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.