Genesis 6:8
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:19Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye.
Proverbs 3:4So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstandyng in the sight of God and men.
Proverbs 12:2A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.
Luke 1:30And the Angel saide vnto her: Feare not Marie, for thou hast founde grace with God.
Romans 4:4To hym that worketh, is the reward not reckened of grace, but of duetie.
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 →