Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
American Standard 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 hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:
Psalms 84:11For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:4So shalt thou find favor and good understanding In the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 12:2A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Luke 1:30And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God.
Romans 4:4Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as 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 →