¹⁷ (as it is written: “I have made you ^(A)a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, that is, God, ^(B)who gives life to the dead and ^(C)calls into being ^(D)things that do not exist.

³ By faith we understand that the ^[a](A)world has been created ^(B)by the word of God so that what is seen ^(C)has not been made out of things that are visible.