13. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Aḇraham or to his seed through the Torah, but through a righteousness of belief.
14. For if those who are of the Torah are heirs, belief has been made useless, and the promise has been nullified,
15. for the Torah works out wrath, for where there is no Torah there is no transgression.
16. On account of this it is of belief, that it be according to favour, for the promise to be made certain to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Torah, but also to those who are of the belief of Aḇraham, who is father of us all –
17. as it has been written, “I have made you a father of many nations” – in the presence of Him whom he believed, even Elohim, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing,
18. who against all expectation did believe, in expectation, so that he should become father of many nations, according to what was said, “So shall your seed be.”
19. And not having grown weak in belief, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,
20. he did not hesitate about the promise of Elohim through unbelief, but was strengthened in belief, giving esteem to Elohim,
21. and being completely persuaded that what He had promised He was also able to do.
22. Therefore also “it was reckoned to him for righteousness.”