Bible Verses About The Promises of God

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.

And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.

So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.