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

But as the time of the promise drew near, which God solemnly made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

From the seed of this man hath God, according to his promise, brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And we declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers

But do not thou yield to them; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and they are now ready, looking for the promise from thee.

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers,

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

For if they that are of the Law are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.

Therefore the inheritance was made to depend on faith, that it might be a matter of grace; that the promise might be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is under the Law, but to that also which hath the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.

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

And what I mean is this; that a covenant that was before ratified by God, the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, cannot annul, so as to make void the promise;

for if the inheritance cometh from the Law, it ceaseth to be the consequence of the promise; but to Abraham God gave it by promise.

To what end then was the Law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise belongeth, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

and if ye belong to Christ, then are ye Abrahams offspring, heirs according to the promise.

But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh; while the one by the freewoman was through the promise.

But ye, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of a promise.

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

that the gentiles are fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel;

"Honor thy father and mother;" which is the first commandment with a promise;

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

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

Let us then fear, since a promise is still left us of entering into his rest, lest any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.

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

Wherefore God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, confirmed it by an oath,

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

The Lord is not tardy concerning his promise, as some men count tardiness; but is longsuffering toward you, not willing 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 himself promised us, even the life everlasting.