Romans 4:11–18

¹¹and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them, ¹²and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham. ¹³For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith; ¹⁴for if they who are of law are heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless; ¹⁵for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression. ¹⁶Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham.

¹⁷Who is father of us all (according as it hath been written—‘A father of many nations I have set thee,’) before Him whom he did believe—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being. ¹⁸Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: ‘So shall thy seed be;’