Romans 4:13-24

¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴For if those who live by the law are to be the heirs, faith is made empty, and the promise is void.

¹⁵For the law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there is no trespass.

¹⁶For this reason it is by faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all of Abraham's descendants—not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all,

¹⁷as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” Abraham was in the presence of him whom he trusted, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that do not exist into existence.

¹⁸In hope he believed against hope, that he would become the father of many nations, according to what he had been told, “So will your descendants be.”

¹⁹Without becoming weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about a hundred years old)—and he considered the deadness of Sarah's womb.

²⁰But because of God's promise, Abraham did not hesitate in unbelief. Instead, he was strengthened in faith and gave praise to God.

²¹He was fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to accomplish.

²²Therefore this was also counted to him as righteousness.

²³Now it was not written only for his benefit, that it was counted for him.

²⁴It was written also for us, for whom it will be counted, we who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.