Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, 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.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

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

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

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: