Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.

For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

In the same way, since it was God's desire to display more convincingly to the heirs of the promise how unchangeable His purpose was,

Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;

Through faith even Sarah herself received strength to become a mother--although she was past the time of life for this--because she judged Him faithful who had given the promise.

And although by their faith all these people won God's approval, none of them received the fulfilment of His great promise;

His voice then shook the earth, but now we have His promise, "Yet again I will, once for all, cause not only the earth to tremble, but Heaven also."