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,
21. being fully persuaded that he was also powerful to do all that he had promised;
22. therefore, his faith was also attributed unto him as righteousness.
23. Now it is not written for his sake alone that it was so reckoned to him,
24. but for us also to whom it shall be so reckoned, that is, to those that believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25. who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.