19 Bible Verses about God's Promises

Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.

The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, along with all their multitude of stars, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering.

Come, let's consider your options," says the Lord. "Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

"In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you."

The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.

But he replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!"

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

"For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.

The Lord supports him on his sickbed; you completely heal him from his illness.

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

He generously gives to the needy; his integrity endures. He will be vindicated and honored.

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.

Yes, Lord, you rescued my life from death, and kept my feet from stumbling.

Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.

Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply, 'Here I am.' You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.

Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply, 'Here I am.' You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.

His resolve is firm; he will not succumb to fear before he looks in triumph on his enemies.

The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

Then you will walk on your way with security, and you will not stumble.

May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep!

He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River --

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

At that time you will say: "I praise you, O Lord, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.

Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me!

Show me evidence of your favor! Then those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, for you, O Lord, will help me and comfort me.

Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.

I will protect her priests, and her godly people will shout exuberantly.

The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth."

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?

The Lord values the lives of his faithful followers.

The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

"Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. Tell them, 'Come back to me, wayward Israel,' says the Lord. 'I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. For I am merciful,' says the Lord. 'I will not be angry with you forever.

keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children's children, to the third and fourth generation."

The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.

But those who wait for the Lord's help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles' wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

Don't be afraid, for I am with you! Don't be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you -- yes, I help you -- yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out -- he will be blessed in what he does.

For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ's name will never lose his reward.

"So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

My hand made them; that is how they came to be," says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit -- O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged.

Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love -- often relenting from calamitous punishment.

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!"

who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

The Lord's angel camps around the Lord's loyal followers and delivers them.

Certainly the Lord watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

May the Lord protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies!

He will shelter you with his wings; you will find safety under his wings. His faithfulness is like a shield or a protective wall.

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, 'Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Peter said to them, "Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged.

And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) -- if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

"Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

"I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

But when Jesus turned and saw her he said, "Have courage, daughter! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was healed from that hour.

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.

The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.

But the oppressed will possess the land and enjoy great prosperity.

Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord! May you live forever!

I know that the Lord defends the cause of the oppressed and vindicates the poor.

He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.

You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the Lord is their shelter.

"Because of the violence done to the oppressed, because of the painful cries of the needy, I will spring into action," says the Lord. "I will provide the safety they so desperately desire."

for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.

And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job's endurance and you have seen the Lord's purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

For this finds God's favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household."

I will satisfy him with long life, and will let him see my salvation.

Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

My hand made them; that is how they came to be," says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great."

Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth -- only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile -- like chasing the wind!

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

He changes times and seasons, deposing some kings and establishing others. He gives wisdom to the wise; he imparts knowledge to those with understanding;

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

He said, "If you will diligently obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the Lord, am your healer."

The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

for they are life to those who find them and healing to one's entire body.

Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the Lord, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for."

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

The Lord supports him on his sickbed; you completely heal him from his illness.

Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, you revive me. You oppose my angry enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

"'I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.

So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

For every one of God's promises are "Yes" in him; therefore also through him the "Amen" is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.

Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For it says in scripture, "Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame."

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I will instruct and teach you about how you should live. I will advise you as I look you in the eye.

May he show the humble what is right! May he teach the humble his way!

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

Then one of the elders asked me, "These dressed in long white robes -- who are they and where have they come from?" So I said to him, "My lord, you know the answer." Then he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!