41 Bible Verses about Promises

And this is the promise which He hath promised us, even eternal life.

That is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

For ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.

for the promise is to you and to your children, yea and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us:

that ye would not be sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

Let us inflexibly retain the profession of our hope,

by which are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

and ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus,

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seen them from afar, and been persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the declaration of his coming? for except that the fathers are fallen asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation.

In whom ye also trusted, when ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also when ye believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

and being fully persuaded, that what was promised He was able to perform:

who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the form of divine worship, and the promises:

But now He hath obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises.

And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise;

And thus waiting patiently he obtained the promise.

The Lord is not slow as to his promise (as some count it slowness) but is long-suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Having therefore, my beloved, these promises, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

What then availeth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was delivered by angels in the hand of a mediator.

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

And on this account He is the mediator of a new covenant, that undergoing death for the redemption of transgressions against the first covenant, they that are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

Honour thy father and thy mother, (which is the first commandment with promise,)

and blessed is she that believed; for there shall be a performance of the things that were told her from the Lord.