The Daily Audio Bible

The Promise Was Not Through The Law But Faith, Making It Firm To All

¹³ For the promise to Abraham or to his seed^[a] that he should be the inheritor of the world was not through the Law^[b], but through the righteousness of faith! ¹⁴ For if the ones of the Law are inheritors, faith has been made-empty^[c] and the promise has been nullified^[d]. ¹⁵ For the Law brings-about wrath. But where there is no Law, neither is there transgression^[e]. ¹⁶ For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be based on grace, so that the promise might be firm^[f] to all the seed— not to the seed of the Law only^[g], but also to the seed of the faith of Abraham,

Abraham Is The Father of All Who Believe

... who is the father of us all— ¹⁷ just as it has been written [in Gen 17:5] that “I have made you a father of many nations”— before God^[h] Whom he believed, the One giving-life-to the dead and calling the things not being as^[i] being,

He Believed God’s Promise, Contrary To All His Human Circumstances

¹⁸ ... who believed contrary-to^[j] hope, upon hope, so that he might become^[k] the father of many nations in accordance with the thing having been spoken [in Gen 15:5]: “So shall your seed be”. ¹⁹ And not having weakened in faith, he considered^[l] his own body already having become impotent^[m], being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of the womb of Sarah. ²⁰ But he did not waver in unbelief with reference to the promise of God, but became-strong in faith— having given glory to God, ²¹ and having been fully-convinced that what He had promised He was able also to do.

His Faith Was Credited To Him As Righteousness, And So Is Ours

²² Therefore indeed it was credited to him for righteousness. ²³ And it was not written for his sake only that it was credited to him, ²⁴ but also for our sake to whom it is going-to be credited— the ones putting-faith upon the One having raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ Who was handed-over for^[n] our trespasses and was raised for^[o] our justification.

This Means We Have Peace With God And Access To His Grace Through Jesus Christ

5 Therefore, having been declared-righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through Whom also we have the access by faith into this grace in which we stand.

And In Spite of Our Afflictions, Our Hope Will Not Disappoint Us, For God Loves Us

And we are boasting over the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only this, but we also are boasting in the afflictions— knowing that the affliction is producing endurance, ⁴ and the endurance is producing approvedness, and the approvedness is producing hope, ⁵ and the hope does not put-to-shame^[p] because the love of God has been poured-out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit having been given to us.