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The Book of Romans, Chapter 4, Verse 13

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And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.
King James Version
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
American Standard Version
For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
New English Translation
Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
World English Bible
For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
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Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
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(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
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And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
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He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
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And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
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Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;