23 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

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 your Seed"; which is Christ.

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

For, if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God has freely given it to Abraham through promise.

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

But the one by the bond-woman has been born after the flesh; and the one by the free-woman, through promise.

And we declare to you good tidings of the promise made to the fathers,

And now, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, I have taken my stand to be judged;

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

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot-breadth; and He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his Seed after him, when he had no child.

But, as the time of the promise which God promised to Abraham was drawing nigh, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,

For, if those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been brought to nought;

What, then, is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the Seed should come to Whom it had been promised; having been arranged through angels in the hand of a mediator.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It could not be! For, if a law had been given, which was able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been by law;

but the Scripture shuts up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

wherein God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed with an oath;

but he whose genealogy is not reckoned from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has 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 heirs with him of the same promise;

By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, even when past the age of child-bearing, since she accounted Him faithful, Who promised.

By faith Abraham, when tried, has offered up Isaac; yea, he who gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son,

But ye, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of promise.

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

that the gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partners with us of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel;