Romans:4:16-21
mkjv@Romans:4:16 @ Therefore [it is] of faith so that [it might be] according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the] faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
mkjv@Romans:4:17 @ (as it has been written, I have made you a father of many nations) --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things [which] do not exist as [though they] do exist.
mkjv@Romans:4:18 @ [For he] who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, So your seed shall be).
mkjv@Romans:4:19 @ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.
mkjv@Romans:4:20 @ He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,
mkjv@Romans:4:21 @ and being fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was also able to perform.