30 Bible Verses about Promises concerning

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

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.'"

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

When I turn my attention to you, I'll refine your dross as in a furnace. I'll remove all your alloy.

Look, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.

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.

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.

"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."

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There won't be death anymore. There won't be any grief, crying, or pain, because the first things have disappeared."

Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. Instead, because you are participating in the sufferings of the Messiah, keep on rejoicing, so that you may be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed.

A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all. God protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.

When you pass through the waters, I'll be with you; and through the rivers, they won't sweep over you. when you walk through fire you won't be scorched, and the flame won't set you ablaze.

"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

For his wrath is only momentary; yet his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may lodge for the night, but shouts of joy will come in the morning.

You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah will all be made alive.

God, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.

"From the power of Sheol I will rescue them, from death I will redeem them. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? My eyes will remain closed to your pleas for compassion.

I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish that there is to be a resurrection of the righteous and the wicked.

Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other. The LORD listened and took note, and a scroll of remembrance was written in his presence about those who fear the LORD and honor His name.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

If you fear the LORD, serve him, obey him, and don't rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then both you and the king who rules over you will truly follow the LORD your God.

Who is the man who fears the LORD? God will teach him the path he should choose.

How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

A person's pride will bring about his downfall, but the humble in spirit will gain honor.

"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.

Better to be humble among the poor, than to share what is stolen with the proud.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom from heaven,

The reward of humility is the fear of the LORD, along with wealth, honor, and life.

"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!"

For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah will all be made alive.

God, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.

"From the power of Sheol I will rescue them, from death I will redeem them. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? My eyes will remain closed to your pleas for compassion.

I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish that there is to be a resurrection of the righteous and the wicked.

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.

They are refreshed from the abundance of your house; You cause them to drink from the river of your pleasures.

And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in parched places, and they will strengthen your bones; and you'll be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.

But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

He keeps satisfying you with good things, and he keeps renewing your youth like the eagle's.

I'll give the priests abundant provisions, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," declares the LORD.

I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.

In fact, Moses said,

because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

Then the women remembered Jesus' words. They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven disciples and all the others.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

because he was teaching them like a person who had authority, and not like their scribes.

Then Jesus approached them and told them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

"I know what you've been doing. Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut. You have only a little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.

"If you love me, keep my commandments. I will ask the Father to give you another Helper, to be with you always.

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.

This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

Then he went back with them, returning to Nazareth and remaining in submission to them. His mother continued to treasure all these things in her heart.

I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."