25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.

For it was not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by righteousness of faith.

For if the inheritance be on the principle of law, it is no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.

and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

But he that was of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he that was of the free woman through the promise.

And we declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers,

And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt 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 that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.

By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,

But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;