41 Bible Verses about Promises

And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

By these he has granted his promises to us, precious and splendid; so that through them you may become partners of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

and was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able also to perform.

For they are Israelites; to them belong the sonship, the Shekinah glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law; the service of the temple, and the promises;

But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.

Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;

And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

"but as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God made to Abraham, the people multiplied and increased in Egypt;

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

"And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words spoken to her would be fulfilled."