25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

The Lord said to Abram:

Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse those who treat you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.

I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

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

But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

And we ourselves proclaim to you the good news of the promise that was made to our ancestors.

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.

For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

He didn’t give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.

“As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.

But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath,

But one without this lineage collected tenths from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and he was offering his unique son,

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

The Gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and partners of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.