Let us fear, therefore, lest at any time a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to come short.

and so having waited long he obtained the promise.

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

By faith he resided temporarily in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise;

And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,