25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.

I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies' cities.

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He did not say to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ.

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

If the inheritance is based on the Law, it is no longer based on a promise. However God granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.

After waiting patiently, Abraham received the promise.

How is it that the son by the slave woman is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise?

We tell you good news. It is God's promise to the fathers.

Now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.

They are Israelites and the adoption belongs to them. They have the glory of the covenants. The law was given to them along with the service and promises.

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

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 and his seed after him for a possession. This promise was made before he had a child.

When the time of God's promise to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt.

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 (to cause awareness of sin) because of transgressions, till 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? God forbid! If a law had been given which could impart life, righteousness would have been from the Law.

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

When God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he confirmed it with an oath.

But this man does not have their genealogy. He received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.

By faith Sarah received strength to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who promised.

By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. He that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only-begotten son!

Brothers, we are children who belong to the promise, the same as Isaac was.

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

The Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news.