Children Of Promise

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

• Children

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

• Ephesians
• Faith
• Gospel

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.