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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith (4:13) For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: (4:14) Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression (4:15) 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, (4:16) (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were (4:17) Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be (4:18) And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: (4:19) He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; (4:20) And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform (4:21) And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness (4:22) Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; (4:23) But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; (4:24) Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification
(4:25)
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