Romans 4
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Romans 4:16-24

16Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

17(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the 1God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

18who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

19and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

20and hesitated not at the promise of 2God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to 3God;

21and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

22wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

23Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

24but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

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Notes

  1. 1. Romans 4:17 4.17 Elohim ↩
  2. 2. Romans 4:20 4.20 Elohim ↩
  3. 3. Romans 4:20 4.20 Elohim ↩

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