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 those who are of the law are the heirs, faith is in vain, and the promise annulled,
15. because the law works wrath; for where there is no law, there is no rebellion either.
16. Therefore by faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17. as it is written, As a father of many Gentiles have I placed thee before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as those that are.
18. Who believed to wait against all hope, that he might become the father of many Gentiles, according to that which had been spoken unto him, So shall thy seed be.
19. And he did not weaken in faith: he considered not his own body now dead when he was about one hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb;
20. he doubted not the promise of God, with unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,