25 Bible Verses about God's Promise To Abraham

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy 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 be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: