19 Bible Verses about God's Promises

Love the LORD, all his godly ones! The LORD preserves the faithful and repays those who act with proud motives.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will take me safely to his heavenly kingdom. Glory belongs to him forever and ever! Amen.

"You are the LORD; you alone crafted the heavens, the highest heavens with all of their armies; the earth, and everything in it; the seas, and everything in them; you keep giving all of them life, and the army of heaven continuously worships you.

Indeed, the LORD loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They are kept safe forever, but the lawless will be chased away, and the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.

he will sit refining and purifying silver, purifying the descendants of Levi, refining them like gold and silver. Then they'll bring a righteous offering to the LORD.

"Please come, and let's reason together," implores the LORD. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be white like snow. Though they're like crimson, they'll become like wool.

But if we keep living 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 the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

I'll sprinkle pure water on you all, and you'll be cleansed from your impurity and from all of your idols."

If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

I've wiped away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; because I've redeemed you.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.

Is there any God like you, forgiving iniquity, passing over transgressions by the survivors who are your heritage? He is not angry forever, because he delights in gracious love.

But he said, "Instead, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!"

May you observe his statutes and keep his commands that I'm giving you today, so that life may go well for you and for your descendants after you. That way, you'll live a long life in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you permanently."

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

but showing gracious love to the thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father's kingdom. Let the person who has ears listen!"

I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.

The righteous person lives a life of integrity; happy are his children who follow him!

The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that grows brighter until the full light of day.

Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the needs of afflicted souls, then your light will rise in darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

The LORD will uphold him even on his sickbed; you will transform his bed of illness into health.

"How blessed are those who are merciful, because it is they who will receive mercy!

He gives generously to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.

He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, he is the one on whom we have set our hope, and he will rescue us again,

"He will deliver you through six calamities; and calamity won't touch you throughout the seventh.

He will surely deliver you from the hunter's snare and from the destructive plague.

Indeed, you delivered my soul from death, my eyes from crying, and my feet from stumbling.

Even until your old age, I am the one, and I'll carry you even until your gray hairs come. It is I who have created, and I who will carry, and it is I who will bear and save.

"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him in his distress. I will deliver him, and I will honor him.

"As for the poor, the needy, those seeking water when there is none and their tongues are parched from thirst I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, won't abandon them.

Then you'll call, and the LORD will answer; you'll cry for help, and he'll respond, "Here I am.' "If you do away with the yoke among you, and pointing fingers and malicious talk;

"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him in his distress. I will deliver him, and I will honor him.

"As for the poor, the needy, those seeking water when there is none and their tongues are parched from thirst I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, won't abandon them.

Then you'll call, and the LORD will answer; you'll cry for help, and he'll respond, "Here I am.' "If you do away with the yoke among you, and pointing fingers and malicious talk;

"But the person who listens to me will live safely and will be secure from the fear of evil."

His heart is steadfast, he will not fear. In the end he will look in triumph over his enemy.

No harm overwhelms the righteous, but the wicked overflow with trouble.

Then you will travel safely on your way, and your foot will not stumble.

He will never let your foot slip, nor will your guardian become drowsy.

He'll love you and increase your numbers. He'll bless the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land (the grain, new wine, and oil), the offspring of your herds, and the lambs of your flock, in the land that the LORD promised your ancestors he would give you.

And as for Ishmael, I've heard you. I'll bless him, and he'll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he'll father twelve tribal leaders, and I'll cause his descendants to become a great nation.

That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River

where one night the LORD appeared to him. "I am the God of your father Abraham," he told him. "Don't be afraid, because I'm with you. I'm going to bless you and multiply your descendants on account of my servant Abraham."

Then the LORD took him outside. "Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can!" he said. "Your descendants will be that numerous."

I'll increase the yields of your fruit trees and crops so that you'll never again experience the disgrace of famine that occurs in other nations.

so your barns will be filled with abundance, and your vats will burst open with new wine.

Threshing will extend to the time of vintage and the vintage will extend to the time of sowing, so that you'll eat your bread to your satisfaction and live securely in your land.

He will also provide rain for your seed that you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the ground will be rich and abundant. At that time, your cattle will graze in broad meadows,

and the LORD your God will prosper you abundantly in all that you do, along with your children, your livestock, and the produce of your fields, because the LORD your God will again be delighted with you for good, just as he was delighted with your ancestors,

Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

At that time, you will say: "I will praise you, LORD, for although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me.

You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

Show me a sign of your goodness, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. For you, LORD, will help and comfort me. A psalm by the descendants of Korah. A song.

For the LORD will have compassion on Zion, have compassion on all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her deserts like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing. Sorrow and sighing will flee away.

I will clothe its priests with salvation and its godly ones will shout for joy.

The nations were angry, but the time for your wrath has come. It is time for the dead to be judged to reward your servants, the prophets, the saints, and all who fear your name, both unimportant and important, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

Indeed, the LORD loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They are kept safe forever, but the lawless will be chased away, and the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

In the sight of the LORD, the death of his faithful ones is valued.

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, patient, and abundantly rich in gracious love.

Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say, "Return, unfaithful Israel,' declares the LORD. "I won't look on you in anger, for I am gracious,' declares the LORD. "I won't remain angry forever.

He graciously loves thousands, and forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. But he does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the ancestors on their children, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation."

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.

I will show my gracious love toward him forever, since my covenant is securely established with him.

but those who keep waiting for the LORD will renew their strength. Then they'll soar on wings like eagles; they'll run and not grow weary; they'll walk and not grow tired."

You are being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, so that you might patiently endure everything with joy

Don't be afraid, because I'm with you; don't be anxious, because I am your God. I keep on strengthening you; I'm truly helping you. I'm surely upholding you with my victorious right hand."

I pray that he would give you, according to his glorious riches, strength in your inner being and power through his Spirit,

You strengthened me with valor sufficient for the battle; you made those who rebelled against me fall beneath me.

Those who manifest wisdom will shine like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars for ever and ever.

For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have ministered to the saints and continue to minister to them.

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that the work that you do for the Lord isn't wasted.

But the one who looks at the perfect law of freedom and remains committed to it thereby demonstrating that he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of what that law requires will be blessed in what he does.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to the Messiah will never lose his reward."

So I say to you: Keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you,

If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it."

when my people humble themselves the ones who are called by my name and pray, seek me, and turn away from their evil practices, I myself will listen from heaven, I will pardon their sins, and I will restore their land.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.

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

"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message.

True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

Tear your hearts, not your garments; and turn back to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to become angry, overflowing in gracious love, and grieves about this evil.

The house of the proud the LORD will demolish, but he will protect the widow's boundary line.

Assyria won't save us; we won't be riding on horses, Nor will we be saying anymore to the work of our hands, "You are our God." Indeed, in you the orphan finds mercy.'

He executes justice for the orphan and the widows, loves the foreigner, and gives them food and clothing."

But you do see! You take note of trouble and grief in order to take the matter into your own hand. The helpless one commits himself to you; you have been the orphan's helper.

A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.

And yet not a hair on your head will be lost.

The angel of the LORD surrounds those who fear him, and he delivers them.

The LORD's eyes keep on roaming throughout the earth, looking for those whose hearts completely belong to him, so that he may strongly support them. But because you have acted foolishly in this, from now on you will have wars."

The LORD will protect him and keep him alive; he will be blessed in the land; and he will not be handed over to the desires of his enemies.

With his feathers he will cover you, under his wings you will find safety. His truth is your shield and armor.

In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don't need to repent."

"Turn back, unfaithful people, and I'll heal your unfaithfulness." "Look, we're coming to you because you are the LORD our God.

Peter answered them, "Every one of you must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.

How blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied! How blessed are you who are crying now, because you will laugh!

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

Now if we are children, we are heirs heirs of God and co-heirs with the Messiah if, in fact, we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.

Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.

Enduring, we with him will reign. Who him denies, he will disclaim.

He thought that being insulted for the sake of the Messiah was of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her. He told her, "You can stop crying."

"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.

I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

When Jesus turned and saw her, he said, "Be courageous, daughter! Your faith has made you well." And from that very hour the woman was well.

"How blessed are those who are humble, because it is they who will inherit the earth!

but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips.

The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

The humble will inherit the land; they will take in abundant peace.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him, "May you live forever!"

I know that the LORD will act on behalf of the tormented, providing justice for the needy.

but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips.

You would frustrate the plans of the oppressed, but the LORD is their refuge.

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

Your people live there; you sustain the needy with your goodness, God.

The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that grows brighter until the full light of day.

But the righteous person will hold to his way, and those with clean hands will grow stronger and stronger."

They will walk from strength to strength; each will appear before God in Zion.

We consider those who endured to be blessed. You have heard about Job's endurance and have seen the purpose of the Lord that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

For it is a fine thing if, when moved by your conscience to please God, you suffer patiently when wronged.

Then Jesus told him, "Today salvation has come to this home, because this man is also a descendant of Abraham,

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever doesn't believe will be condemned.

They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved."

I will satisfy him with long life; I will show him my deliverance. A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath Day

But Israel will be saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you won't be put to shame or disgraced ever again."

Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message.

Then he told them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, because the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest."

Though the LORD is highly exalted, yet he pays attention to those who are lowly regarded, but he is aware of the arrogant from afar.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to everyone generously without a rebuke, and it will be given to him.

After all, to the person who is good in God's sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he gives the troublesome task of acquiring and accumulating in order to leave it to someone who is good in the sight of God. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

It is God who alters the times and seasons, and he removes kings and promotes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

because I will give you the ability to speak, along with wisdom, that none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.

There the LORD presented to them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them. He said, "If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what he sees to be right, listen to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then I won't inflict on you all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, because I am the LORD your healer."

The LORD will turn aside every disease from you. He won't inflict on you the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but will inflict them instead on all who hate you.

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

Indeed, I'll bring you healing, and I'll heal you of your wounds,' declares the LORD, "because they have called you an outcast and have said, "It is Zion, no one cares for her!"'"

Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

How blessed is the man whom you instruct, LORD, whom you teach from your Law,

The LORD will uphold him even on his sickbed; you will transform his bed of illness into health.

Though I walk straight into trouble, you preserve my life, stretching out your hand to fight the vehemence of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

The Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed."

Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's prosperity.

Now if only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea.

"I'm going to enter into a covenant with them, one of peace, and I'll eliminate wild beasts from the land so they can live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.

Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.

Because you have obeyed my command to endure, I will keep you from the hour of testing that is coming to the whole world to test those living on the earth.

Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.

For all God's promises are "Yes" in him. And so through him we can say "Amen," to the glory of God.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one.

Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Who overcomes the world? Is it not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

To the one who conquers I will give a place to sit with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne.

Our brothers conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to their lives even in the face of death.

Don't be afraid of what you are going to suffer. Look! The Devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. For ten days you will undergo suffering. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the victor's crown of life.

"Let everyone listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone. On the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the person who receives it.'"

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, initially for Jews but also for Greeks as well,

The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own action.

because you know that everyone will receive a reward from the Lord for whatever good he has done, whether he is a slave or free.

You know that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward. It is the Lord Messiah whom you are serving!

Great peace belongs to those who love your instruction, and nothing makes them stumble.

Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peaceful.

"This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who directs you in the path by which you should go.

I'll help the blind walk, even on a road they do not know; I'll guide them in directions they do not know. I'll turn the dark places into light in front of them, and the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I won't abandon them.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.

This is why it says in Scripture: "Look! I am laying a chosen, precious cornerstone in Zion. The one who believes in him will never be ashamed."

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

I will instruct you and teach you concerning the path you should walk; I will direct you with my eye.

He will guide the humble to justice; he will teach the humble his way.

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.

Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow.

I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.

Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"

However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death's shadow, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

Rather, love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind even to ungrateful and evil people.

The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.

No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.

"Who are these people wearing white robes," one of the elders asked me, "and where did they come from?" I told him, "Sir, you know."