And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faithwhich he had yet beinguncircumcised: that he might be the father of all themthatbelieve, thoughthey be not circumcised; thatrighteousnessmight be imputeduntothemalso:
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcisiononly, but who alsowalk in the steps of thatfaith of our fatherAbraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promisemight be sure to all the seed; not to thatonlywhich is of the law, but to thatalsowhich is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
(As it is written, I havemadethee a father of manynations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleththosethingswhich be not as thoughtheywere.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundredyears old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’swomb: