And, behold, I send forth the promise of My Father upon you; but abide ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high."

And, being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which said He, "Ye heard from Me;

Being, therefore, exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He was pouring forth this which ye both see and hear.

for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off??s many as the Lord our God shall call to Him."

But, as the time of the promise which God promised to Abraham was drawing nigh, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,

From the seed of this one, God, according to promise, brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus;

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

Be not, therefore, persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him; who, indeed, bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor drink, till they should kill him; and now they are ready, expecting the promise from you."

And now, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, I have taken my stand to be judged;

unto which promise our twelve-tribed nation, earnestly serving day and night, is hoping to attain; concerning which hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews.

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

For, if those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been brought to nought;

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

but, in view of the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but was made 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 reckoned for a seed.

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

that to the gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

But this I say: A covenant previously confirmed by God, the law, which came into existence four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate, that it should make the promise of no effect.

For, if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God has freely given it to Abraham through promise.

but the Scripture shuts up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

And, if ye are Christ's, ye are, consequently, Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise.

But the one by the bond-woman has been born after the flesh; and the one by the free-woman, through promise.

But ye, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of promise.

in Whom ye also??fter having heard the word of the truth, the Gospel of your salvation, in Whom having also believed??ere sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

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

that the gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partners with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel;

"Honor your father and mother" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),

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

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

Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise still being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

For God, when making a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, swore by Himself,

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

And, for this cause, He is the Mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions against the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For ye have need of patience, that, after having 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 heirs with him of the same promise;

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

and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? for, from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation."

The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, not wishing 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 dwells righteousness,

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