48 occurrences in 12 translations

'Promises' in the Bible

So after you've built cities for your families and corrals for your cattle, be sure to keep your promises."

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelStock Keeping

then he promises, "I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

Verse ConceptsBinding cornWater IrrigationOilRainProvisionsGod Sending RainReapingLatenessspringtime

Bring your burnt offerings there, along with your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, your offerings in fulfillment of promises, your freely given offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Verse ConceptsOfferingsVowsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingBringing In The TitheRegulating SacrificesTithes And Offering

then bring to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling place where he will establish his name everything that I'm commanding you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, and all your best offerings in fulfillment of promises that you pledged to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGiftsChoicesOfferingsSacred PlacesAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingBringing In The TitheRegulating SacrificesA Place For God's NameTithes And Offering

"You may carry and bring only your consecrated gifts and offerings in fulfillment of promises to the place that the LORD will choose.

None of the good promises the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed. Everything was fulfilled.

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfGod's PromisesThe promises of GodPromises concerningPromisesfulfillment

“I am now going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and all your soul that none of the good promises the Lord your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfConfidence, In God's WordCertaintyAssurance in the life of faithGod's PromisesBible MemorizationPromises To Stand onNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenPromises concerning

“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My precepts and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word (promises) with you which I made to David your father.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

“May the Lord be praised! He has given rest to His people Israel according to all He has said. Not one of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses has failed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfGod, Faithfulness OfAssurance, basis ofAssurance in the life of faithLoyaltyGod's PromisesReliabilityScripture, Purpose OfGod Is UnchangeableBless The Lord!God Giving Rest

Lord, You have done all this greatness, making known all these great promises because of Your servant and according to Your will.

Verse ConceptsGod, Will OfKnowing God, Nature Of

All these sons of Heman, the king’s seer, were given by the promises of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFourteenSeers

[You] who have kept Your promise to Your servant David, my father, that which You told him; You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is today.

Verse ConceptsMouths

O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!"

Verse ConceptsLove, Nature OfThe Anointed One

You are the reason I offer praise in the great assembly; I will fulfill my promises before the Lord's loyal followers.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodAssemblyVowsMaking VowsIn The CongregationPeople Commended By God

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

Verse ConceptsClean, Spiritual UseJustice, In Believers' LivesRenewed HeartAdmission Into God's PresenceSwearing Oaths FalselyPure PeoplePurity

God has spoken in His holiness [in His promises]:“I will rejoice, I will divide [the land of] Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth [west to east].

For you, God, have heard my promises; you have assigned to me the heritage of those who fear your name.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Me

So I will sing songs to your name forever; I will fulfill my promises day by day. To the Director: According to Jeduthun's style. A Davidic Psalm.

Verse ConceptsPraiseFaithfulness, To Goddelay, humanRevival, PersonalVowsDaily DutyMaking VowsI Will Praise You With Music

Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthViolenceNations DescribedDarkness Of EvilGod Keeps Covenant

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?Have His promises ended for all time?

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenGod's PromisesEnd Of Actions

[They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises];He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Verse ConceptsGod, Perfection OfGod, The RockIs God Unjust?

Then I will not be ashamedWhen I look [with respect] to all Your commandments [as my guide].

Verse ConceptsNot AshamedDisappointment

“There I will make the horn (strength) of David grow;I have prepared a lamp for My anointed [fulfilling the promises].

Verse ConceptsHornsHorns VictoriousPowerful IndividualsGrowing

All the kings of the land will give thanks and praise You, O Lord,When they have heard of the promises of Your mouth [which were fulfilled].

Don't be one of those who make promises to guarantee loans for debts.

Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

Lord, because of these promises people live,and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well;You have restored me to healthand let me live.

Verse ConceptsRevival, PersonalRecovery

“For Sheol cannot praise or thank You,Death cannot praise You and rejoice in You;Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHope, Nature OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceSheolNot Praising GodState Of The DeadDeath Of Loved OneCelebrationLoss Of A Loved One

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and faithfulness [to God’s promises to us] in my days.”

Verse ConceptsSearchingTime Of Peace

A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManMere Men

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed and stationed watchmen (prophets),Who will never keep silent day or night;You who profess the Lord, take no rest for yourselves,

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightSleeplessnessWatchmanAnticipation

“Because he who blesses himself on the earthWill bless himself by the God of truth and faithfulness;And he who swears [an oath] on the earthWill swear by the God of truth and faithfulness;Because the former troubles are forgotten,And because they are hidden from My sight.

Verse ConceptsLeaving The Past BehindPast, TheGod Is TruthfulBeing Hidden From GodHidden From GodSwearing ByFamily ProblemsBlessing OthersSwearing

These people make promises in the name of the Lord. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie."

Verse ConceptsPerjurySwearing Oaths Falsely

"For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are completed, I'll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfGod, Faithfulness OfBabylon, Prophecies OfempiresProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtProphets, Role OfReliabilitySeventy70 To 80 YearsPromise of return

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Verse ConceptsFate, And FatalismAstronomyCommands, in OTLight, NaturalMoonNatureOceansOrderly PatternsGod As A WarriorHis Name Is The LordSun Moon And Stars Before GodThe Sea Stirred UpSunshineThe Moon

“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will fulfill the good promisesthat I have spokenconcerning the house of Israeland the house of Judah.

Verse ConceptsPromisesfulfillment

“In those days and at that time,” says the Lord, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will come up weeping [in repentance] as they come and seek the Lord their God [inquiring for and of Him].

Verse ConceptsLast DaysSeeking GodUnity, God's Goal OfWeepingPerspectivereuniting

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

Bible Theasaurus

Anticipate (12 instances)
Assure (83 instances)
Foretell (7 instances)
Predict (11 instances)

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