And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. But do you remain in the city of Jerusalem, till you be clothed with power from on high.

And calling them together, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of my Father, which, said he, you have heard from me;

Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from his Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

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

And as the time of the promise which God had made with an oath to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

From the posterity of this man, God, according to his promise, raised up for Israel a Savior, Jesus;

And we preach to you good news concerning the promise made to our fathers,

Do not, however, be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him; and they have bound themselves under a curse, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for a promise from you.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

to which promise our twelve tribes, zealously serving night and day, hope to come: on account of which hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;

Therefore, the inheritance is by faith, that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all his posterity, not to those only who are of the law, but to those, also, who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

and he doubted not, through unbelief, with respect to the promise of God, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

For the word of the promise is this: At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

in order that the blessing of Abraham may come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.

What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the offspring should come, to whom the promise was made,) having been appointed through the service of angels, in the hand of a mediator.

But the scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Christ Jesus may be given to those who believe.

And if you are Christ s, then you are Abraham's posterity, and heirs according to the promise.

But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.

We, indeed, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

in whom you also hoped after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom, after you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in the Christ, through the gospel,

Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus,

Let us fear, therefore, lest, as a promise of entering into his rest still remains, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,

And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant: that, since his death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the former covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

And all these, having obtained a good reputation by faith, received not the promise,

While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

The Lord does not delay concerning his promise, as some men count delay, but he is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

And this is the promise which he has promised us, even eternal life.