The Believer’s Rest

Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.

For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear an oath by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, confirmed it with an oath,

But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, to the extent that He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the violations that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

By faith he lived as a stranger in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen and welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and the one who had received the promises was offering up his only son;

who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”