25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

And thus Abraham,having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.

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

For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.