Quotes About Divine promise

“Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”

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.

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.

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,

ëAfter this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

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.

that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahamís seed and heirs according to the promise.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave womanís son will never share in the inheritance with the free womanís son.”

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ëThey shall never enter My rest.í” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.