Quotes about Promise
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
- Genesis 17:26
Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
- Genesis 18:10
And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- Genesis 18:11
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- Genesis 18:12
And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
- Genesis 18:13
Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
- Genesis 18:14
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
- Genesis 18:15
And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
- Genesis 18:17
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
- Genesis 18:18
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Genesis 18:19
So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
- Genesis 18:26
suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
- Genesis 18:28