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

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

^{15 Ref} Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

^{16 Ref} Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might 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, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

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