Romans 4:13-18 For the promise to Abraham or his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Godbey⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ For the promise to Abraham or his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if the heirs were by the law, faith has been made void, and the promise vitiated. ¹⁵ For the law works out wrath: for where there is no law, there is no transgression. ¹⁶ Therefore it is by faith, in order that it may be by grace; that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not only of the law, but also of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, ¹⁷ as it has been written, That I have constituted thee the father of many nations, before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls things which are not as really existing: ¹⁸ who against hope confided in hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be: