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As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is before him whom he believed, God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
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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 will your seed be."
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Without being weakened in faith, he didn`t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah`s womb.
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Yet, looking to the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
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and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.