Let us therefore fear least a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to fall short of it:

For when God made the promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying,

And thus waiting patiently he obtained the promise.

Wherefore God being willing more abundantly to manifest unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath:

And on this account He is the mediator of a new covenant, that undergoing death for the redemption of transgressions against the first covenant, they that are called might receive the promise of an 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 promised him, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise.

And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise;