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;’ ¹⁹and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb, ²⁰and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, ²¹and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do: ²²wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

²³And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him, ²⁴but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead, ²⁵who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

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