25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham
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And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you. And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.
And to Abraham and to his Seed the promises were spoken. It does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, "And to your Seed," which is Christ.
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
For if the inheritance is of Law, it is no more of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by way of promise.
But, indeed, he out of the slave-woman has been born according to flesh, and he out of the free woman through the promise;
And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made to our fathers by God,
who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises;
And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
And He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not even a foot-breadth. And He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.
But as the time was drawing near, of the promise which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
For if they of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is made of no effect;
Why then the Law? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to those to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in the Mediator's hand.
Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be said! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.
But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
In this way desiring to declare more fully to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,
But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him.
By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful.
By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son,
That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.
that the nations should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partaker of His promise in Christ through the gospel.
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