12and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that [is] in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
13For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
14for if they who are of law [are] heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;
15for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither [is] transgression.
16Because of this [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which [is] of the law only, but also to that which [is] of the faith of Abraham,
17who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,`) before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.
18Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;`
