25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Then the LORD said unto Abram, "Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred; and out of thy father's house, into a land which I will show thee. And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee. And in thee shall be blessed all the generations of the earth."

that I will bless thee and multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the sea side. And thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies.

To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, "in the seeds," as in many: But, "in thy seed," as in one, which is Christ.

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

For if the inheritance come of the law, it cometh not of promise: but God gave it unto Abraham by promise.

And so after that he had tarried a long time, he enjoyed the promises.

Yea, and he which was of the bondwoman, was born after the flesh: but he which was of the freewoman, was born by promise.

And we declare unto you, how that the promise made unto the fathers;

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

Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law that was given and the service of God, and the promises,

And I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.

and he gave him none inheritance in it - no, not the breadth of a foot - But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

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

For if they which are of the law be heirs, then is faith but vain, and the promise of none effect.

Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression - till the seed came, to which the promise was made - and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Is the law, then, against the promise of God? God forbid. Howbeit, if there had been a law given which could have given life: then no doubt righteousness should have come by the law.

But the scripture concluded all things under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given unto them that believe.

So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath,

But he whose kindred is not counted among them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

Through faith Sarah also received strength to be with child, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.

By faith Abraham offered up Isaac, when he was tempted, and he offered him being his only begotten son, which had received the promises:

Brethren, we are, after the manner of Isaac, children of promise:

that is to say; They which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God. But the children of promise are counted the seed.

That the gentiles should be inheritors also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise that is in Christ, by the means of the gospel,