Genesis 6:8

Yet truly, Noah found grace before the Lord.

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In The King James Version

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

In Context

7he said, “I will eliminate man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man to other living things, from animals even to the flying things of the air. For it grieves me that I have made them.”

9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, and yet he was predominate among his generations, for he walked with God.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:19though your servant has found grace before you, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life, I cannot be saved on the mountain, lest perhaps some misfortune take hold of me and I die.

Psalms 84:11Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.

Proverbs 3:4And so shall you discover grace and good discipline, in the sight of God and men.

Proverbs 12:2Whoever is good shall draw grace from the Lord. But whoever trusts in his own thoughts acts impiously.

Luke 1:30And the Angel said to her: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace with God.

Romans 4:4But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.

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 →

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