And ye are witnesses of these things: and I will send upon you the promise of my Father;

And meeting them together He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said He, ye have heard from me;

Therefore being exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the holy Spirit, He hath poured forth this gift, which ye now see and hear.

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

But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt.

Of this man's seed, according to the promise, hath God raised up to Israel Jesus the Saviour:

that the promise made unto the fathers God hath fulfilled unto us their children, having raised up Jesus again: as it is also written in the second psalm, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

And now I stand arraigned for the hope of the promise which was made by God to our fathers:

to which promise our twelve tribes, worshipping continually night and day, hope to attain: concerning which hope, O king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

For the promise made to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of faith:

for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

He hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief: but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

Nor because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children of promise: but "in Isaac shall thy seed be called."

That is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

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

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the gentiles by Christ Jesus; that we through faith might receive the promise of the Spirit.

This then I say, that the law, which was given four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the covenant, which was so long before confirmed by God unto Christ, to make void the promise.

For if the inheritance be from the law, it is no more from the promise: whereas God gave it to Abraham by promise.

What then availeth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was delivered by angels in the hand of a mediator.

But the scripture hath shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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

But he who was of the servant, was born according to the course of nature; whereas the son of the free-woman was by virtue of the promise.

Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of the promise.

In whom ye also trusted, when ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also when ye believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

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

and of the same body, and joint-partakers of his promise in Christ, by the gospel:

Honour thy father and thy mother, (which is the first commandment with promise,)

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

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

Let us therefore fear least a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to fall short of it:

For when God made the promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying,

And thus waiting patiently he obtained the promise.

Wherefore God being willing more abundantly to manifest unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath:

And on this account He is the mediator of a new covenant, that undergoing death for the redemption of transgressions against the first covenant, they that are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

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

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

And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise;

The Lord is not slow as to his promise (as some count it slowness) but is long-suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

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