When that time comes you will ask as my followers, and I do not promise to intercede with the Father for you,

for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."

As the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise God had made to Abraham, the people became more and more numerous in Egypt,

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, and they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, and are only waiting to get your promise."

Even now it is for my hope in the promise that God made to our forefathers that I stand here on trial,

the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

For if it is the adherents of the Law who are to possess it, faith is nullified and the promise amounts to nothing!

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.

He did not incredulously question God's promise, but his faith gave him power and he praised God

That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.

For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son."

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

If our inheritance rests on the Law, it has nothing to do with the promise. Yet it was as a promise that God bestowed it upon Abraham.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.

Now we, brothers, are like Isaac, children born in fulfilment of the promise.

At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."

to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.

Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus in fulfilment of the promise of that life which is found in union with Christ Jesus,

We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation.

For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself,

Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,

so that by these two unalterable things, which make it impossible for God to break his promise, we who have taken refuge with him may be greatly encouraged to seize upon the hope that is offered to us.

Let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we profess, for he who has given us his promise may be trusted.

Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.

Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now his promise is, "But once more I will make not only the earth but the very heaven to tremble!"

The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.

In fulfilment of his promise we expect new heavens and a new earth, where uprightness will prevail.