ROMANS 4:14-20

¹⁴For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

¹⁵for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

¹⁶For 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 is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

¹⁸Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb:

²⁰yea, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,