'Promised' in the Bible

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by [the power of] the Holy Spirit.

And Joseph her [promised] husband, being a just and righteous man and not wanting to expose her publicly to shame, planned to send her away and divorce her quietly.

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man {named} Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin [was] Mary.

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

just as he promised long ago through the mouth of his holy prophets

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.

And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.

And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high.”

While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, "Don't leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak,

Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him with an oath to put one of his descendants on his throne,

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days.

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

"This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years.

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

It was from this man's descendants that God, as he promised, brought to Israel a Savior, who is Jesus.

We're telling you the good news: What God promised our ancestors

And [as for the fact] that He raised Him from the dead, never again to return to decay [in the grave], He has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David [those blessings and mercies that were promised to him].’

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

(as it is written [in Scripture], “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the sight of Him in whom he believed, that is, God who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

In hope against hope Abraham believed that he would become a father of many nations, as he had been promised [by God]: “So [numberless] shall your descendants be.”

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion.

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

This happened in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the gentiles through the Messiah Jesus, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the descendant should come to whom it had been promised, having been ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator.

But the Scripture has captured everything by means of sin's net, so that what was promised by the faithfulness of the Messiah might be granted to those who believe.

When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

The gentiles are heirs-in-common, members-in-common of the body, and common participants in what was promised by the Messiah Jesus through the gospel.

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

And so he obtained what he had been promised, because he patiently waited for it.

For the Law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promised oath, which came after the Law, results in a Son who is eternally perfect.

This is why the Messiah is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant.

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

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise,

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

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

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

All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised,

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

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

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that 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."

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

and if anyone takes away from or distorts the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away [from that one] his share from the tree of life and from the holy city (new Jerusalem), which are written in this book.