23 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

The promises were spoken to Abraham and his offspring. He said not, And to offsprings, as of many, but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

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

and so having waited long he obtained the promise.

But he by the servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the promise.

And we declare to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

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

For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers,

And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a foot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no son.

But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to Abraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,

For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;

but the Scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them that believe.

for which cause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath,

but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises.

By faith he resided temporarily in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise;

By faith also Sarah herself received power to become a mother, even beyond the usual age, because she regarded him faithful that promised.

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

But we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,