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

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For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

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for the law worketh wrath but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace to the end that the promise may 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

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(as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

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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 shall thy seed be.

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And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb

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yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,

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and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

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Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

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Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him

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but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

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who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.