29 Bible Verses about The promises of God

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said unto me, Return unto your country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you:

And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have said.

And now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this goodness unto your servant:

And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who shall proceed out of your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

And if you are Christ's, then are you Abraham's descendants, and heirs according to the promise.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

So God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

Of this man's descendants has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:

And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who shall proceed out of your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; read more.
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he swore to our father Abraham,

And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the descendant should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Now to Abraham and his descendant were the promises made. He says not, And to descendants, as of many; but as of one, And to your descendant, who is Christ.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his descendants, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto your descendants will I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Blessed be the LORD, that has given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing has failed thereof.

For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his descendants forever.

Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this, which you now see and hear.

In whom you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after you believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,

Let us therefore fear, lest, although a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

And now the LORD your God has given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of Jordan.

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his descendants, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the descendants; not to those only who are of the law, but to those also who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;

Is his mercy ceased forever? does his promise fail forevermore?

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how the promise which was made unto the fathers,

In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;

And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.

And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more than you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)

And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who shall proceed out of your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father; And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your descendants all these countries; and in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

But the scripture has consigned all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

For bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

And your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

Blessed be the LORD, that has given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame scorch you.

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

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Let us therefore fear, lest, although a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

(Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, you have heard of me.