Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

In this way desiring to declare more fully to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

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

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,