Let us then fear, since a promise is still left us of entering into his rest, lest any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

Wherefore God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, confirmed it by an oath,

By faith he sojourned in the land of the promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;