- 所以人得為後嗣是本乎信.因此就屬乎恩.叫應許定然歸給一切後裔.不但歸給那屬乎律法的、也歸給那效法亞伯拉罕之信的。
- 亞伯拉罕所信的、是那叫死人復活使無變為有的 神、他在主面前作我們世人的父.如經上所記、『我已經立你作多國的父。』
- 他在無可指望的時候、因信仍有指望、就得以作多國的父、正如先前所說、『你的後裔將要如此。』
- 他將近百歲的時候、雖然想到自己的身體如同已死、撒拉的生育已經斷絕、他的信心還是不軟弱.
- 並且仰望 神的應許、總沒有因不信、心裡起疑惑.反倒因信、心裡得堅固、將榮耀歸給 神。
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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,
- (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.
- 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.
- 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 Sarah's womb:
- He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
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