Rom 4:12-17 | ESV | STEP | and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised .

Romans 4:12-17

12 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

The Promise Realized Through Faith

13 For ^athe promise to Abraham and his offspring ^bthat he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 ^cFor if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For ^dthe law brings wrath, but ^ewhere there is no law ^fthere is no transgression.

16 That is why it depends on faith, ^gin order that the promise may rest on grace and ^hbe guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, ⁱwho is the father of us all, 17 as it is written, ^j“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, ^kwho gives life to the dead and calls into existence ^lthe things that do not exist.