25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, and from your relatives, and from 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. And you will be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you all of the families of the earth be blessed."

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

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

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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

"But as the time of the promise came close which God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

By faith, he lived as a foreigner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

By faith he received power to procreate when he was past age, and Sarah herself was barren. He regarded him faithful who had promised.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

Now you, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,