Biblical Concept: Promise

Findings:

“Then the people did according to this promise.”

Nehemiah re Israel manifest destiny: “Thou hast fulfilled Thy promise.”

^NAS Haggai 2:5 'As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!' (Note: “Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.”)

“having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit”

^NAS Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but

through the righteousness of faith.

Promise faith relationship.

Faith, promise, grace, relationship.

Promise, God, faith, glory, relationship.

“the children of the promise are regarded as descendants”

“the promise of the Spirit through faith”

²² But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

“heirs according to promise”

^NAS Ephesians 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you

were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

“sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise”

Gentiles: “partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”

“godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come”

“the promise of life in Christ Jesus”

“promise remains of entering His rest”

“promise to Abraham”

Wait promise relationship.

“heirs of the promise”

“the promise of the eternal inheritance”

“land of promise”

“heirs of the same promise”

“promise of His coming”

“not slow about His promise”

Promise, new heavens and new earth.

^NAS 1 John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.

“for Sarah as He had promised”

“He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob”

“enter the land” … ”as He has promised”

“the LORD has promised good concerning Israel”

“do what you have promised”

“you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you”

“the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you”

“the LORD gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He promised him”

⁵⁶ "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His

good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant.

^NAS Psalm 119:57 The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Thy words.

Evil, not obey, promised blessing, not.

^NAS Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

^NAS Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

Theorem: Endurance, will of God, receive, promise.

Promised: Sons over Saints.

^NAS James 1:12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which

the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

“heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him”

Theorem: promises, cleanse, perfecting holiness, fear of God.

^NAS Hebrews 6:12 that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Jesus: more excellent ministry, mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises.

Earthly versus heavenly promises.

^NAS 2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become

partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

“His precious and magnificent promises”

“promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption”

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Promise

^NAS 1 Kings 2:4 so that the LORD may carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'

^NAS 1 Kings 8:56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant.

^NAS 2 Chronicles 1:9 "Now, O LORD God, Thy promise to my father David is fulfilled; for Thou hast made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

^NAS Nehemiah 5:12 Then they said, "We will give it back and will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say." So I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.

¹³ I also shook out the front of my garment and said, "Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not fulfill this promise; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised the LORD. Then the people did according to this promise. (“Then the people did according to this promise.”)

^NAS Nehemiah 9:8 "And Thou didst find his heart faithful before Thee, And didst make a covenant with him To give him the land of the Canaanite, Of the Hittite and the Amorite, Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite-- To give it to his descendants. And Thou hast fulfilled Thy promise, For Thou art righteous. (Nehemiah re Israel manifest destiny: “Thou hast fulfilled Thy promise.”)

^NAS Psalm 77:8 Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever?

^NAS Haggai 2:5 'As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!' (All) (Note: “Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.”)

^NAS Luke 24:49 "And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

^NAS Acts 2:33 "Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear. (“having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit”)

³⁹ "For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself."

^NAS Acts 7:17 "But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

^NAS Acts 13:23 "From the offspring of this man, according to promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus,

³² "And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

³³ that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, 'Thou art My Son; today I have begotten Thee.'

^NAS Acts 23:21 "So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you."

^NAS Acts 26:6 "And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

⁷ the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and day. And for this hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews.

^NAS Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. (All) (Promise faith relationship.) (Context: Romans 4:13-25 ¹³ For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; ¹⁵ for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there violation. ¹⁶ For this reason it is by faith, that it might be in accordance with grace, in order that the promise may be certain to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, ¹⁷ (as it is written, "A father of many nations have I made you") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. ¹⁸ In hope against hope he believed, in order that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your descendants be." ¹⁹ And without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb; ²⁰ yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform. ²² Therefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness. ²³ Now not for his sake only was it written, that it was reckoned to him, ²⁴ but for our sake also, to whom it will be reckoned, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ He who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.)

¹⁴ For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; (Promise faith relationship.)

¹⁶ For this reason it is by faith, that it might be in accordance with grace, in order that the promise may be certain to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (Faith, promise, grace, relationship.)

²⁰ yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, (Promise, God, faith, glory, relationship.)

^NAS Romans 9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants. (“the children of the promise are regarded as descendants”)

⁹ For this is a word of promise: "At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

^NAS Galatians 3:14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (“the promise of the Spirit through faith”)

¹⁷ What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

¹⁸ For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.

¹⁹ Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed should come to whom the promise had been made.

²² But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. (All)

²⁹ And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. (“heirs according to promise”)

^NAS Galatians 4:23 But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

²⁸ And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

^NAS Ephesians 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, (All) (“sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise”)

^NAS Ephesians 2:12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

^NAS Ephesians 3:6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, (Gentiles: “partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”)

^NAS Ephesians 6:2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

^NAS 1 Timothy 4:8 for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. (“godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come”)

^NAS 2 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, (“the promise of life in Christ Jesus”)

^NAS Hebrews 4:1 Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. (“promise remains of entering His rest”)

^NAS Hebrews 6:13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, (“promise to Abraham”)

¹⁵ And thus, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. (Wait promise relationship.)

¹⁷ In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, (“heirs of the promise”)

^NAS Hebrews 9:15 And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (“the promise of the eternal inheritance”)

^NAS Hebrews 11:9 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; (“land of promise”) (“heirs of the same promise”)

^NAS 2 Peter 3:4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." (“promise of His coming”)

⁹ The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (“not slow about His promise”)

¹³ But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. (Promise, new heavens and new earth.)

^NAS 1 John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. (All)

Promised

^NAS Genesis 21:1 Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised. (“for Sarah as He had promised”)

¹⁵ "And behold, I am with you, and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

^NAS Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you, and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob." (“He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob”)

^NAS Exodus 12:25 "And it will come about when you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has promised, that you shall observe this rite. (“enter the land” ”as He has promised”)

^NAS Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you'; come with us and we will do you good, for the LORD has promised good concerning Israel." (“the LORD has promised good concerning Israel”)

^NAS Numbers 14:16 'Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

⁴⁰ In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, "Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised."

^NAS Numbers 32:24 "Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep; and do what you have promised." (“do what you have promised”)

^NAS Deuteronomy 1:11 'May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you, just as He has promised you!

^NAS Deuteronomy 6:3 "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

^NAS Deuteronomy 9:28 'Otherwise the land from which Thou didst bring us may say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness."

^NAS Deuteronomy 12:20 "When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire.

^NAS Deuteronomy 15:6 "For the LORD your God shall bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

^NAS Deuteronomy 18:2 "And they shall have no inheritance among their countrymen; the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

^NAS Deuteronomy 19:8 "And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers--

^NAS Deuteronomy 23:23 "You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised.

^NAS Deuteronomy 26:18 "And the LORD has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

^NAS Deuteronomy 27:3 and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, in order that you may enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.

^NAS Joshua 13:33 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had promised to them.

^NAS Joshua 23:5 "And the LORD your God, He shall thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. (“you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you”)

¹⁰ "One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you. (“the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you”)

^NAS Judges 1:20 Then they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised; and he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.

^NAS 2 Samuel 7:28 "And now, O Lord God, Thou art God, and Thy words are truth, and Thou hast promised this good thing to Thy servant.

^NAS 1 Kings 2:24 "Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah will be put to death today."

^NAS 1 Kings 5:12 And the LORD gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant. (“the LORD gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He promised him”)

^NAS 1 Kings 8:20 "Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

²⁴ who hast kept with Thy servant, my father David, that which Thou hast promised him; indeed, Thou hast spoken with Thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with Thy hand as it is this day.

²⁵ "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David my father that which Thou hast promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.'

⁵⁶ "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. (All)

^NAS 1 Kings 9:5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'

^NAS 2 Kings 8:19 However, the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give a lamp to him through his sons always.

^NAS 1 Chronicles 17:26 "And now, O LORD, Thou art God, and hast promised this good thing to Thy servant.

^NAS 2 Chronicles 6:10 "Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in the place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

¹⁵ who has kept with Thy servant David, my father, that which Thou hast promised him; indeed, Thou hast spoken with Thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with Thy hand, as it is this day.

¹⁶ "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David, my father, that which Thou hast promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'

^NAS 2 Chronicles 21:7 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David because of the covenant which He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.

^NAS Esther 4:7 And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

^NAS Psalm 119:57 The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Thy words. (All)

^NAS Jeremiah 18:10 if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it. (Evil, not obey, promised blessing, not.)

^NAS Jeremiah 40:2 Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, " The LORD your God promised this calamity against this place;

³ and the LORD has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the LORD and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.

^NAS Jeremiah 51:62 and say, 'Thou, O LORD, hast promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.'

^NAS Matthew 14:7 Thereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

^NAS Mark 14:11 And they were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

^NAS Acts 1:4 And gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me;

^NAS Acts 7:5 "And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground; and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his offspring after him.

^NAS Romans 1:2 which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

^NAS Romans 4:21 and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform.

^NAS 2 Corinthians 9:5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, that the same might be ready as a bountiful gift, and not affected by covetousness.

^NAS Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, (All)

^NAS Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; (All)

³⁶ For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. (Theorem: Endurance, will of God, receive, promise.)

^NAS Hebrews 11:11 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised;

³⁹ And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised, (Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.) (Promised: Sons over Saints.)

^NAS Hebrews 12:26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven."

^NAS James 1:12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

^NAS James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? (“heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him”)

Promises

^NAS Joshua 21:45 Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.

^NAS Romans 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,

^NAS Romans 15:8 For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

^NAS 2 Corinthians 1:20 For as many as may be the promises of God, in Him they are yes; wherefore also by Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

^NAS 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (Theorem: promises, cleanse, perfecting holiness, fear of God.)

^NAS Galatians 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ.

²¹ Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

^NAS Hebrews 6:12 that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (All)

^NAS Hebrews 7:6 But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham, and blessed the one who had the promises.

^NAS Hebrews 8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. (Jesus: more excellent ministry, mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises.)

^NAS Hebrews 11:13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. (Earthly versus heavenly promises.)

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

³³ who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

^NAS 2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. (All) (“His precious and magnificent promises”)

Promising

^NAS Jeremiah 32:42 "For thus says the LORD, 'Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.

^NAS 2 Peter 2:19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. (“promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption”)

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