5 [4:13]For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith. [4:14]For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated. [4:15]For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression. [4:16]Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all, [4:17]as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.-- [4:18]who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be. [4:19] And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing, [4:20]and he did not doubt the promise of God by unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, [4:21]being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform. [4:22]Wherefore also it was accounted to him for righteousness. [4:23] But it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him, [4:24] but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, [4:25]who was delivered up for our sins and raised for our justification. 6 [5:1]Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, [5:2]through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. [5:3]And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience, [5:4]and patience, experience, and experience, hope; [5:5] and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us. [5:6]For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked; [5:7]for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die; [5:8]but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us; [5:9]much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath. [5:10]For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life. [5:11]And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we received the present reconciliation.