Bible Verses About Unfulfilled Promises

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

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.

Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

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.

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:

For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.