25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing; and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

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

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

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Howbeit the'son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the'son by the freewoman is born through promise.

And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers,

And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God , and the promises;

For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,

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

But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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

But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten'son ;

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

That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

to wit , that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,