Romans 4:15-20

¹⁵because the law produces wrath, since where there is no law neither is there transgression.

¹⁶For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

¹⁷just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations”—in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the nonexistent things as though they did exist.

¹⁸Contrary to hope, Abraham in hope believed, so as to become a father of many ethnic nations, according to what had been spoken: “So shall your seed be.”

¹⁹And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (being about a hundred years old), or the deadness of Sarah's womb.

²⁰He did not waver at God's promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God,