19 Bible Verses about God's Promises

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.

And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.

If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

His heart is resting safely, he will have no fear, till he sees trouble come on his haters.

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;

And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.

You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.

For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?

Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward.

And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

If you make any request to me in my name, I will do it.

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.

The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.

Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.

The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.

If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:

Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.

Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.

And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, for even he is a son of Abraham.

He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.

And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.

With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:

For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.

And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.

For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.

And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.

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

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

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

Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up: So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from? And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.