25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

But the LORD had said unto Abram, Depart out of thy country and from thy nature and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee; and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless those that bless thee and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies;

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He did not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

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

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

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, but he of the freewoman was born through the promise.

And we declare unto you the gospel of the promise which was made unto the fathers,

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

who are Israelites, to whom pertains the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises,

Now I say that Christ Jesus, was a minister of the circumcision, by the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers;

And he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

For if those who are of the law are the heirs, faith is in vain, and the promise annulled,

For what then serves the law? It was added because of rebellions until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Is the law then against the promises of God? No, in no wise, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

But the scripture has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believers.

In which God, desiring to show more abundantly unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath,

but he whose descent is not counted in those took tithes from Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.

By faith he sojourned in the promised land, as in a strange country, dwelling in booths with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

By faith also Sara herself being sterile received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she believed him to be faithful who had promised.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

So that we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

That is, Those who are sons of the flesh, these are not the sons of God; but those who are sons of the promise are counted in the generation.

that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in the Christ by the gospel,