25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham
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And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee. And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great; and thou shalt be blessed. And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.
That praising, I will praise thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand upon the lip of the sea; and thy seed shall inherit the gate of his enemies.
And to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one: And to thy seed, who is Christ.
For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith.
For if of the law the inheritance, no more of promise: and God has favored Abraham by promise.
But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise.
And now in the hope of the solemn promise having been made to the fathers by God, I stand, being judged,
Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises;
And I say Jesus Christ has become the servant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers:
And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.
And as the time of the solemn promise drew near, which God aware to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.
For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive:
What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator.
The law then against the promises of God? It may not be: for if a law had been given able to make alive, truly justice would be by the law.
But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing.
In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath:
And he not having his descent traced from them received a tenth from Abraham, and praised him having the promises.
By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:
By faith Sara also herself received power for the laying down of seed, and brought forth during the time of age, for she deemed him faithful having promised.
By faith Abraham had brought near Isaac, being tried: and he having received the promises brought near the only born,
That is, The children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the solemn promise are reckoned for seed.
For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:
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