Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but remain in the city till you are endued with power from on high.

And assembling them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which [says he] you have heard from me;

Being therefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you both see and hear.

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

You are the children of the prophets, and of the promise which God promised to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to Abraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,

Of the posterity of this man, according to his promise, has God raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And we declare to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

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

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

and he did not doubt the promise of God by unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

And this is the promise to them from me, when I take away their sins.

that the blessing of Abraham may come on the nations, in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

And this I say; that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant previously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by the promise. But God gave it to Abraham by the promise.

What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.

but the Scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them that believe.

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

But he by the servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the promise.

But we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;

that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

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

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.

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

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

and so having waited long he obtained the promise.

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

By faith he resided temporarily in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise;

And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,

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 world.

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

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

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