Promise

When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,

But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.

Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

…and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.

Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.

I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.

May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

Your promise is completely pure; therefore Your servant loves it.

I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.

May my plea come before You; rescue me according to Your promise.

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt. And My Spirit remains among you; do not be afraid.”

And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.

And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

…the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

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 this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

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.

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.

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.

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

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

…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.

“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

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,

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.

When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

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.

By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.