41 Bible Verses about Promises

And this is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

For the promise is to you and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

for all the promises of God, the yes in him, and the Amen in him, are for glory to God by us.

that you be not stupid, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

let us hold firmly the profession of the faith, without declining; for he is faithful that promised;

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;

And if you are of Christ, then are you Abraham's children and heirs according to the promise.

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.

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

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,

and so having waited long he obtained the promise.

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.

But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to Abraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

And blessed is she that believed; for there shall be an accomplishment of the words spoken to her by the Lord.