Romans 4:13-24

¹³For the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

¹⁴For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, and the promise is made of none effect.

¹⁵For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.

¹⁶Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

¹⁷(As it is written, I haue made thee a father of many nations) euen before God whom he beleeued, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those thinges which be not, as though they were.

¹⁸Which Abraham aboue hope, beleeued vnder hope, that he should be the father of many nations: according to that which was spoken to him, So shall thy seede be.

¹⁹And he not weake in the faith, considered not his owne bodie, which was nowe dead, being almost an hundreth yeere olde, neither the deadnes of Saraes wombe.

²⁰Neither did he doubt of the promise of God through vnbeliefe, but was strengthened in the faith, and gaue glorie to God,

²¹Being fully assured that he which had promised, was also able to doe it.

²²And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

²³Nowe it is not written for him onely, that it was imputed to him for righteousnesse,

²⁴But also for vs, to whom it shalbe imputed for righteousnesse, which beleeue in him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead,