^{17 Ref} As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls 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 will your seed be."

^{19 Ref} Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

^{20 Ref} Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,