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

¹³ For, not through law, was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For, if those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been brought to nought; ¹⁵ for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

¹⁶ For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may 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 ¹⁷ (as it has been written, "A father of many nations have I made you"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were; ¹⁸ who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your seed be." ¹⁹ And, being not weakened in faith, he attentively considered his own body already dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; ²⁰ but, in view of the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but was made strong in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform. ²² Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness. ²³ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him; ²⁴ but for ours also, to whom it will be reckoned, if we believe on Him Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead; ²⁵ Who was delivered up for our trespasses, and raised for our justification.