Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:19Behold now, thy servant has found favor in thy sight, and thou have magnified thy loving kindness, which thou have shown to me in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
Psalms 84:11For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:4so thou shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 12:2A good man shall obtain favor of LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
Luke 1:30And the agent said to her, Fear not, Mary, for thou have found favor with God.
Romans 4:4Now to the man being employed, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to obligation.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:7-8
Mankind Threatened with Destruction. ( b. c. 2469.) 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Here is, I. God's resentment of man's wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees… Read the whole commentary →