And he gave them his promise, and sought the favourable opportunity to betray him to them, in the absence of the multitude.

And, behold, I send unto you the promise of my Father: but sit ye down in the city of Jerusalem, until ye shall be endued with power from on high.

and assembling them together, commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye have heard from me.

He therefore being exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, hath poured out this, which ye now see and hear.

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

But as the time of the promise which God had with an oath confirmed unto Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

From this man's seed according to the promise hath God raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

And we preach to you the promise made to our fathers;

But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee.

And this moment for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers am I standing here to be judged:

which promise our twelve tribes, with fervour night and day worshipping God, hope to attain. For which hope, king Agrippa, I am criminated by the Jews.

For not by the law [came] the promise to Abraham and his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.

For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith becomes vain, and the promise is useless:

Therefore it is by faith, that it might be of grace; in order that the promise might be secured to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

for he disputed not against the promise of God with unbelief; but was mighty in faith, giving glory to God;

That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

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

that unto the Gentiles the benediction pronounced on Abraham might come by Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more by promise; but to Abraham God gave it freely by promise.

To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.

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

But if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise.

So we, brethren, as Isaac, are the children of the promise.

In whom ye also [trusted] after ye had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, and of the same body, and sharers with them of his promise in Christ by the Gospel:

"Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with a promise;)

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

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

LET us fear then lest, though a promise be left of entering into his rest, any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.

For God when he gave the promise to Abraham forasmuch as he had nothing greater to swear by, sware by himself,

And so after long patient waiting he obtained the promise.

And thus God, designing more abundantly to demonstrate to the heirs of promise the immutability of his will, pledged himself by oath,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that, death being suffered for the redemption of transgressions committed against the first testament, they who are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

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

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

By faith also that very Sarah, who was barren, received ability for the conception of seed, and past the usual time of life brought forth a child, because she accounted that he who promised it, would be true to his promise.

By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promise, presented in sacrifice his only begotten son,

And these all though having obtained a testimony by faith, received not the promise:

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue in the same state as from the beginning of the creation.

The Lord doth not delay the promise (as some count it delay); but is longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should have space for repentance.

But we expect according to his promise new heavens and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness.

And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.

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