Quotes about Promise
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- Genesis 17:11
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 17:13
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- Genesis 17:14
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- Genesis 17:15
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
- Genesis 17:16
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- Genesis 17:17
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- Genesis 17:18
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
- Genesis 17:19
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
- Genesis 17:20
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
- Genesis 17:21
When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
- Genesis 17:22
So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
- Genesis 17:24