¹¹ We ·want [desire for] each of you to ·go on with the same hard work [demonstrate the same zeal/diligence] ·all your lives [^Luntil the end] ·so you will surely get what you hope for [or until your hope is fulfilled/attained]. ¹² We do not want you to become ·lazy [sluggish; ^Cin contrast to diligent; v. 11]. Be ·like [^Limitators of] those who through faith and ·patience [endurance] will ·receive [inherit] what God has promised.

¹³ [^LFor] God made a promise to Abraham. And as there is no one greater than God, he ·used himself [vowed by his own name; ^Lswore by himself] when he swore to Abraham,