Quotes About Promise

as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?

So I swore on oath in My anger, ëThey shall never enter My rest.í”

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ëThey shall never enter My rest.í” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”

Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation.

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”

And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.

Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.

So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

But Melchizedek, who did not trace his descent from Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

And none of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.