41 Bible Verses about Promises

And this is what he has promised useternal life.

In other words, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call to himself."

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all his descendantsnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all

For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are Yes. And so through him we speak our Amen to the glory of God.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;

By these he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and become partakers of the divine nature.

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."

In him, you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having also believed, you were sealed in him with the promised Holy Spirit,

being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

But as it is, he has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised,

And so Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that he would be heir of the world, was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

"But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."