'Promise' in the Bible

and, being assembled with them, commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which said he ye have heard of me.

Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.

For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call.

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

Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And we declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers,

Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.

And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,