For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: / Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? / And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, / Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.