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The promise to Abraham and his descendants ,
that they should inherit the world ,
did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith .
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If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs ,
faith is null and the promise is void .
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For the law brings wrath ,
but where there is no law there is no transgression .
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That is why it depends on faith ,
in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants --
not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham ,
for he is the father of us all ,
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as it is written , "
I have made you the father of many nations " --
in the presence of the God in whom he believed ,
who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist .
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In hope he believed against hope ,
that he should become the father of many nations ;
as he had been told , "
So shall your descendants be ."