13: For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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

15: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

16: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might 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, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

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

19: And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

20: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21: And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

22: And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23: Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

24: But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

25: Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.