Romans 4:13-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ 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 justice of faith.

¹⁴ For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁵ For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm 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,

¹⁷ (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹ And he was not weak in faith; neither did he consider his own body now dead, whereas he was almost an hundred years old, nor the dead womb of Sara.

²⁰ In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

²¹ Most fully knowing, that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

²² And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

²³ Now it is not written only for him, that it was reputed to him unto justice,

²⁴ But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him, that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

²⁵ Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification.