Quotes About Promise

For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.Ӓ

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.”

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ëThrough your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.í

and told him, ëLeave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.í

So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.

ëBut I will punish the nation that enslaves them,í God said, ëand afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.í

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

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

This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ëGod will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.í

And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—

Then I remembered the word of the Lord, as He used to say, ëJohn baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.í

And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.

But God raised Him from the dead,

And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ëYou are My Son; today I have become Your Father.í