13 [a]For the promise that he should be the [b]heir of the world, was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the [c]Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 4:13 A reason why the seed of Abraham is to be esteemed by faith, because that Abraham himself through faith was made partaker of that promise, whereby he was made the father of all nations.
  2. Romans 4:13 That all the nations of the world should be his children: or by the world may be understood the land of Canaan.
  3. Romans 4:13 For works that he had done, or upon this condition that he should fulfill the Law.

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