Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

for the promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are far away whom the Lord our God may call to Him."

As the time approached for realizing the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people multiplied and became more numerous in Egypt,

So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers,

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

And now it is for the hope of the promise made by God to our forefathers that I stand here on trial,

which promise our twelve tribes, by devotedly worshiping day and night, hope to see fulfilled for them. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants, that he should own the world, was not conditioned on the law, but on the right standing he had with God through faith.

For if the law party is to possess the world, then faith has been nullified and the promise has been made null and void.

So it is conditioned on faith, that it might be in accordance with God's unmerited favor, so that the promise might be in force for all the descendants of Abraham, not only for those who belong to the law party but also for those who belong to the faith group of Abraham. He is the father of us all,

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." That is, the promise is in force in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who can bring the dead to life and can call to Himself the things that do not exist as though they did.

and yet he never staggered in doubt at the promise of God but grew powerful in faith, because he gave the glory to God

nor are they all children of Abraham, because they are his descendants, but the promise was "In the line of Isaac your descendants will I be counted."

That is, it is not Abraham's natural descendants who are God's children, but those who are made children by the promise are counted his true descendants.

For this is the language of the promise, "About this time next year I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed."

I mean this: The law which was given four hundred and thirty years later could not annul the contract which had already been ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.

For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham.

Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are real descendants of Abraham, and heirs in accordance with the promise made to him.

But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise.

Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are children born to fulfill the promise.

At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.

that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in accordance with the promise of the life that comes through union with Christ Jesus,

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

For when God made His promise to Abraham, He took an oath by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom He could take it,

let us, without ever wavering, keep on holding to the hope that we profess, for He is to be trusted who has made the promise,

By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

By faith Sarah received strength to become pregnant, and actually gave birth to a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought that He who made her the promise was to be trusted.

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, offered Isaac as a sacrifice; that is, he who had received the promise was starting to offer as a sacrifice his only son,

but now His promise is, "Once more I will make not only the earth but heaven itself tremble." Now that expression, "Once more," signifies the final removal of the things that can be shaken, to let remain the things that cannot be shaken.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?

In accordance with His promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which uprightness will have its permanent home.