Romans 4:16-22
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 For this reason, it depends on faith, so that it may be a gift, and the promise may be guaranteed to all his descendants, not to those who only adhere to the law but to those who follow the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us,(A) 17 as it is written, “I have made you father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not exist.(B) 18 He believed, hoping against hope,(C) that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “Thus shall your descendants be.” 19 (D)He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body as [already] dead (for he was almost a hundred years old) and the dead womb of Sarah. 20 He did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief;[a] rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God 21 and was fully convinced that what he had promised he was also able to do.(E) 22 That is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”(F)
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- 4:20 He did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief: any doubts Abraham might have had were resolved in commitment to God’s promise. Hb 11:8–12 emphasizes the faith of Abraham and Sarah.
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