25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing: To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;

Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,

And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.

By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,