^{13 Ref} For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

^{14 Ref} For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

^{15 Ref} for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

^{16 Ref} For this cause `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

^{17 Ref} (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, `even' God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

^{18 Ref} Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.