So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

For when God made His promise to Abraham, He took an oath by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom He could take it,

let us, without ever wavering, keep on holding to the hope that we profess, for He is to be trusted who has made the promise,

By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

By faith Sarah received strength to become pregnant, and actually gave birth to a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought that He who made her the promise was to be trusted.

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, offered Isaac as a sacrifice; that is, he who had received the promise was starting to offer as a sacrifice his only son,

but now His promise is, "Once more I will make not only the earth but heaven itself tremble." Now that expression, "Once more," signifies the final removal of the things that can be shaken, to let remain the things that cannot be shaken.