Genesis 6:8
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:19Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
Proverbs 3:4Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
Luke 1:30So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Romans 4:4Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an 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 →