^{16 Ref} Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

^{17 Ref} who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

^{18 Ref} Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;'

^{19 Ref} and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

^{20 Ref} and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

^{21 Ref} and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

^{22 Ref} wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

^{23 Ref} And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,

^{24 Ref} but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned -- to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

^{25 Ref} who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.