share his faith. For he is father of us all; 17 as it stands written, I have made you the father of many nations. So he is in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that exist not. 18 Hoping against hope, Abraham believed, so as to become the father of many nations according to what had been said to him, So shall your posterity be. 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body to be already as good as dead (being about
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