22 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham
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Now the Promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it is not said, 'and to your offsprings' in the plural, but in the singular and to your offspring ??which is Christ.
The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.
Thus it was that Abraham by his stedfastness obtained what he had been promised.
but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.
To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers,
for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises;
Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,
But he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).
As the time approached for the promise God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void.
Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary
Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,
but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.
God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;
but he who had no Levitical genealogy actually tithed Abraham and blessed the possessor of the promises!
It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;
It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it ??because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise.
It was by faith, when Abraham was put to the test, that he sacrificed Isaac, he was ready to sacrifice his only son, although he had received the promises
namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.
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