23 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring; he does not say: And to offsprings, as if he spoke of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.

And so, when he had waited patiently, he received the promises.

But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.

And we preach to you good news concerning the promise made to our fathers,

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;

Now, I say, that Jesus Christ, as a minister, was of the circumcision for the sake of the truth of God, in order to con firm the promises made to the fathers,

And he gave him no inheritance in it, not a foot breadth: and yet he promised to give it for a possession to him, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no child.

And as the time of the promise which God had made with an oath to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;

What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the offspring should come, to whom the promise was made,) having been appointed through the service of angels, in the hand of a mediator.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given which could have given life, surely righteousness would have been by law.

But the scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Christ Jesus may be given to those who believe.

Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,

but he who does not count his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and brought forth a child when past the time of life, because she counted him faithful who had promised.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: even his first-born, did he that had received the promises, offer up,

We, indeed, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in the Christ, through the gospel,