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And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;
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and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.
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For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.
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For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.
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For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.
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Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,
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(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;
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who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:
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and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,
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and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;
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and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;