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

But as the time of the promise drew near, which God solemnly made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

From the seed of this man hath God, according to his promise, brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And we declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers

But do not thou yield to them; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and they are now ready, looking for the promise from thee.

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