For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his descendents through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
And I will bless her, and give you a son also from her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be from her.
And your descendents shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.