Romans 4:16 ASV

¹⁴  For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

¹⁵  for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

¹⁶  For this cause 'it is' of faith, that 'it may be' according to grace; to the end that the promise may 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

¹⁷  (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, 'even' God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

¹⁸  Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.