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17 " I have made thee a father of many nations," then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were: 18 he it was who against hope believed in hope, that he should become the father of many nations, according to what was told him, "so shall thy posterity be:" 19 far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing, 20 he was not incredulously diffident of the divine promise; but was strong in faith, and did honour to God, 21 by the full persuasion he had, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 and therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness. 23 now this saying, "that it was accounted to him," was not written for his sake alone, 24 but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Romans 4:17-25, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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