19 Bible Verses about God's Promises

O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!
The Lord preserves the faithful
And fully recompenses the proud doer.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

“You alone are the Lord.
You have made the heavens,
The heaven of heavens with all their host,
The earth and all that is on it,
The seas and all that is in them.
You give life to all of them
And the heavenly host bows down before You.

For the Lord loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow,
But He thwarts the way of the wicked.

He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.

“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.

“In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud
And your sins like a heavy mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”

Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in unchanging love.

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.

but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity—
How blessed are his sons after him.

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

And if you give yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
Then your light will rise in darkness
And your gloom will become like midday.

The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed;
In his illness, You restore him to health.

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

He has given freely to the poor,
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted in honor.

who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

“From six troubles He will deliver you,
Even in seven evil will not touch you.

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.

For You have rescued my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
My feet from stumbling.

Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.

“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the Lord, will answer them Myself,
As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you remove the yoke from your midst,
The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.

“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the Lord, will answer them Myself,
As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you remove the yoke from your midst,
The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

“But he who listens to me shall live securely
And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”

His heart is upheld, he will not fear,
Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries.

No harm befalls the righteous,
But the wicked are filled with trouble.

Then you will walk in your way securely
And your foot will not stumble.

He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

The Lord appeared to him the same night and said,
“I am the God of your father Abraham;
Do not fear, for I am with you.
I will bless you, and multiply your descendants,
For the sake of My servant Abraham.”

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.

So your barns will be filled with plenty
And your vats will overflow with new wine.

Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.

Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

Then the Lord your God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers;

But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Then you will say on that day,
“I will give thanks to You, O Lord;
For although You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
And You comfort me.

May You increase my greatness
And turn to comfort me.

Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her waste places.
And her wilderness He will make like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

“Her priests also I will clothe with salvation,
And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.

And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

For the Lord loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

Precious in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His godly ones.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say,
‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord;
‘I will not look upon you in anger.
For I am gracious,’ declares the Lord;
‘I will not be angry forever.

who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

“My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever,
And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.

strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

‘Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

“For You have girded me with strength for battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

“I love those who love me;
And those who diligently seek me will find me.

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

For thus says the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy,
“I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

“For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

And rend your heart and not your garments.”
Now return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness
And relenting of evil.

The Lord will tear down the house of the proud,
But He will establish the boundary of the widow.

“Assyria will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the orphan finds mercy.”

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the helper of the orphan.

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him,
And rescues them.

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.”

The Lord will protect him and keep him alive,
And he shall be called blessed upon the earth;
And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

He will cover you with His pinions,
And under His wings you may seek refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

“Return, O faithless sons,
I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to You;
For You are the Lord our God.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

If we endure, we will also reign with Him;
If we deny Him, He also will deny us;

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her, “Do not weep.”

“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.” At once the woman was made well.

“Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the Lord,
And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

But the humble will inherit the land
And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.
Let your heart live forever!

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted
And justice for the poor.

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,
But the Lord is his refuge.

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

Your creatures settled in it;
You provided in Your goodness for the poor, O God.

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.

He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

“With a long life I will satisfy him
And let him see My salvation.”

Israel has been saved by the Lord
With an everlasting salvation;
You will not be put to shame or humiliated
To all eternity.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

“For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great.”

For though the Lord is exalted,
Yet He regards the lowly,
But the haughty He knows from afar.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God’s sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

“It is He who changes the times and the epochs;
He removes kings and establishes kings;
He gives wisdom to wise men
And knowledge to men of understanding.

for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.

For they are life to those who find them
And health to all their body.

‘For I will restore you to health
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the Lord,
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:
“It is Zion; no one cares for her.”’

Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;

The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed;
In his illness, You restore him to health.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will save me.

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

Those who love Your law have great peace,
And nothing causes them to stumble.

Her ways are pleasant ways
And all her paths are peace.

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you in the way you should go.

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know,
In paths they do not know I will guide them.
I will make darkness into light before them
And rugged places into plains.
These are the things I will do,
And I will not leave them undone.”

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

He leads the humble in justice,
And He teaches the humble His way.

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.