We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful is He who did promise),

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

by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,