13For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;
15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
16For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.
18Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.
19And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
