Romans 4:14-20

¹⁴For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁵For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

¹⁶Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm 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 is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

¹⁸Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹And he was not weak in faith; neither did he consider his own body now dead, whereas he was almost an hundred years old, nor the dead womb of Sara.

²⁰In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God: