Genesis 6:8
But Noah had won the Lord’s favor.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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Genesis 19:19See, your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown great mercy to me in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the heights. Some evil will overtake me and I will die.
Psalms 84:11for the Lord is sun and shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from the life that is blameless.
Luke 1:30when the angel spoke again, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Romans 4:4Now wages are regarded as due to the person who works, not as a favor, but as a 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 →