Quotes About Promise

But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.

It is not as though Godís word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Nor because they are Abrahamís descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

So it is not the children of the flesh who are Godís 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.”

Not only that, but Rebeccaís children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ëMy Peopleí who are not My people, and I will call her ëMy Belovedí who is not My beloved,”

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í”

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

For Godís gifts and His call are irrevocable.

And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

After I go through Macedonia, however, I will come to you; for I will be going through Macedonia.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”

placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.