Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise still being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

For God, when making a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by Himself,

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

And, for this cause, He is the Mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions against the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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

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

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