"Now, Master, thou canst let thy servant go, and go in peace, as thou didst promise;

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

But he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).

As the time approached for the promise God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

So we now preach to you the glad news that the promise made to the fathers

To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers,

a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king!

The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void.

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all

no unbelief made him waver about God's promise; his faith won strength as he gave glory to God

they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring.

For when God said, I will come about this time and Sara shall have a son, that was a word of promise.

My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

Now you are the children of the Promise, brothers, like Isaac;

Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh ??12 remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),

The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

This is in my own handwriting: 'I Paul promise to refund it' ??not to mention that you owe me, over and above, your very soul.

Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater),

God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;

so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;

It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it ??because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise.

They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain.