'Promise' in the Bible

And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, 'Ye did hear of me;

at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.

'And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus,

And we to you do proclaim good news -- that the promise made unto the fathers,

thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves -- not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.'

and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,