Romans 4:13-25 - The Promise To Abraham Secured Through Faith

¹³ The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void. ¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

¹⁶ That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all ¹⁷ (as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist. ¹⁸ For Abraham, when hope was gone, hoped on in faith, and thus became the father of many nations ??even as he was told, So numberless shall your offspring be. ¹⁹ His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb; ²⁰ no unbelief made him waver about God's promise; his faith won strength as he gave glory to God ²¹ and felt convinced that He was able to do what He had promised. ²² Hence his faith was counted to him as righteousness. ²³ And these words counted to him have not been written for him alone ²⁴ but for our sakes as well; faith will be counted to us as we believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ Jesus who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised that we might be justified.