17. (as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
18. Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”
19. Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20. He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
21. He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.
22. So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
23. But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,
24. but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
25. He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.