Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.
Darby Translation
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 favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.
Psalms 84:11For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:4and thou shalt find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 12:2A good [man] obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.
Luke 1:30And the angel said to her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God;
Romans 4:4Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of 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 →