Let us fear, therefore, lest any of us forsaking the promise of entering into his rest, should seem to come behind.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath,

And for this cause is he the mediator of the new testament, that through death which chanced for the redemption of those transgressions that were in the first testament, they which were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

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

By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

And these all, through faith, obtained good report, and received not the promise;