Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entring into his rest, any of us should altogether come short of it.

For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater,

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

Wherefore God being willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, interposed by an oath:

And for this end he is the Mediator of a new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise.

did not receive the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they might not be perfected without us.