And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.

and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which,'said he , ye heard from me:

Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.

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

But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Of this man's seed hath God according to promise brought unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers,

Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

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

For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,

That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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

Howbeit the'son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the'son by the freewoman is born through promise.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

to wit , that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

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

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

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

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

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

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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