23 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

But to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, To seeds, as unto many persons; but as to an individual, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

For not by the law [came] the promise to Abraham and his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more by promise; but to Abraham God gave it freely by promise.

And so after long patient waiting he obtained the promise.

Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise.

And we preach to you the promise made to our fathers;

And this moment for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers am I standing here to be judged:

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

Now I say that Jesus Christ was the minister of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not so much as the print of his foot: yet he promised to give it for a possession to him and to his seed after him, when he had no son.

But as the time of the promise which God had with an oath confirmed unto Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith becomes vain, and the promise is useless:

To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which was capable of procuring life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.

But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

And thus God, designing more abundantly to demonstrate to the heirs of promise the immutability of his will, pledged himself by oath,

But he who derived not his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises;

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

By faith also that very Sarah, who was barren, received ability for the conception of seed, and past the usual time of life brought forth a child, because she accounted that he who promised it, would be true to his promise.

By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promise, presented in sacrifice his only begotten son,

So we, brethren, as Isaac, are the children of the promise.

That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, and of the same body, and sharers with them of his promise in Christ by the Gospel: