"And I promise you a kingdom, even as my Father has promised me a kingdom;

"And I will send forth the promise of my Father upon you. But tarry in Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

And once when he was eating with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. "Of this," he said, "you have heard from me.

Since he is by the mighty hand of God exalted, and has received from his Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this which you now see and hear.

"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

"but as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God made to Abraham, the people multiplied and increased in Egypt;

"Of this man's descendants God has brought unto Israel, according to his promise, a Savior, Jesus;

"And we bring you glad tidings of the promise made to our forefathers,

"Today I am standing trial because of the hope of the promise made by God to our ancestors,

"a promise which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is concerning this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews.

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

For if those who are righteous through law are heirs, faith is empty and the promise becomes void.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

Nor did he with regard to the promise of God waver in unbelief, but he waxed strong in faith, while he gave God glory,

they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abraham's descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

For thus is the word of promise, According to this season I will come, and Sarah shall bear a son.

I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.

For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;

were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, sent forth to proclaim the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

For when God make the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying.

And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

On which principle God, wishing to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, mediated with an oath;

that by means of two immutable things??is promise and his oath??n which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son,

Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;

They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

But according to his promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness makes her dwelling.

And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.