'Promised' in the Bible

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."

He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

While he was with them, he declared, "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) -- when you believed in Christ -- you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began.

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

For you need endurance in order to do God's will and so receive what is promised.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too."

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

and saying, "Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation."