Promises of God, The

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• Romans 1:2 NT

  which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

• Ephesians 3:6 NT

  that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

• 2 Timothy 1:1 NT

  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

• Galatians 3:16 NT

  Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

• Galatians 3:19 NT

  Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

• Genesis 12:3 OT

  I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

• Genesis 12:7 OT

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 26:3 OT

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 26:4 OT

  I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

• Genesis 28:14 OT

  Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

• 2 Samuel 7:12 OT

  When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

• Psalms 89:3 OT

  “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

• Psalms 89:4 OT

  ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”

• Psalms 89:35 OT

  Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

• Psalms 89:36 OT

  His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

• Romans 9:4 NT

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

• Acts 13:32 NT

  We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

• Acts 26:6 NT

  Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

• Acts 26:7 NT

  which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

• Acts 2:39 NT

  For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

• James 1:12 NT

  Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

• James 2:5 NT

  Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

• Hebrews 8:6 NT

  But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

• Titus 1:2 NT

  in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;