And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you are endued with power from on high.

And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, you have heard of me.

Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this, which you now see and hear.

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

But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Of this man's descendants has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how the promise which was made unto the fathers,

But do not yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from you.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

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

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

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the descendants; 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,

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants.

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

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

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

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

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the descendant should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

But the scripture has consigned all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.

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

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

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

That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

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

For bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that 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 life which is in Christ Jesus,

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

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

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

So God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

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

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

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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 is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

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