15. For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
16. Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm 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,
17. (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.
18. Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.