- 所以人得为后嗣是本乎信。因此就属乎恩。叫应许定然归给一切后裔。不但归给那属乎律法的,也归给那效法亚伯拉罕之信的。
- 亚伯拉罕所信的,是那叫死人复活使无变为有的神,他在主面前作我们世人的父。如经上所记,我已经立你作多国的父。
- 他在无可指望的时候,因信仍有指望,就得以作多国的父,正如先前所说,你的后裔将要如此。
- 他将近百岁的时候,虽然想到自己的身体如同已死,撒拉的生育已经断绝,他的信心还是不软弱。
- 并且仰望神的应许,总没有因不信,心里起疑惑。反倒因信,心里得坚固,将荣耀归给神。
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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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