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11 And he receaued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth, whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised, that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also. 12 And that he myght be father of circumcision, not vnto them only whiche came of the circumcised: but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the fayth that was in our father Abraham, before the time of circumcision. 13 For the promise that he shoulde be the heyre of the worlde, was not to Abraham or to his seede through the lawe, but through the ryghteousnes of fayth. 14 For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres, then is fayth but vayne, and the promise of none effect: 15 Because the lawe causeth wrath. For where no lawe is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore by fayth is the inheritaunce geuen that it might come by grace, that the promise myght be sure to all ye seede, not to that only which is of the lawe, but to that also which is of the fayth of Abraham, which is the father of vs al. 17 (As it is written, that I haue made thee a father of many nations) before God, whom he beleued, which restoreth the dead vnto life, and calleth those thynges whiche be not, as though they were. 18 Who contrary to hope, beleued in hope, that he shoulde be the father of many nations, accordyng to that which was spoken: so shall thy seede be. 19 And he faynted not in the fayth, nor considered his owne body nowe dead, when he was almost an hundred yeres old, neither yet the deadnesse o Saraes wombe. 20 He stackered not at the promise of God through vnbeliefe: but was strong in fayth, geuyng glorie to God: 21 And beyng full certified, that what he had promised, he was able also to perfourme. 22 And therfore was it reckened to hym for righteousnes. 23 Neuerthelesse, it is not written for hym only, that it was reckened to him: 24 But also for vs, to whom it shalbe reckened, so that we beleue on hym that raysed vp Iesus our Lorde from the dead. 25 Which was deliuered for our sinnes, and was raysed agayne for our iustification. Romans 4:11-25, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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