So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail;

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath, by him that said to him, The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.