Romans 4:18-25

18Abraham continued to trust God. He hoped to receive what God had promised. He continued to hope even when he had no good reason to hope. That is why he became the ancestor of many different people. It happened just like God had said: ‘You will have very many descendants.’

19Abraham was about 100 years old. His body was already so old that it was nearly dead. His wife, Sarah, was unable to have children. Abraham understood all that, but he did not stop trusting God.

20He never stopped believing what God had promised. Instead, he believed in God more strongly. He trusted God's great power.

21Abraham was sure that God was able to do what he had promised to do.

22So we see that it is true: Because Abraham believed God, God accepted Abraham as right with him.

23Think about those words, ‘God accepted him as right.’ They are not only speaking about Abraham.

24They are written in the Bible to help us too. If we believe in God, he will accept us as right with him. God raised our Lord Jesus, so that he became alive again after his death.

25God let people kill Jesus on the cross because of the wrong things that we have done. Then God raised Jesus from death, to show that he would accept us as right with him.