Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.
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In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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Genesis 19:19Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot escape to the mountains, because the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Psalms 84:11For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; 1 Yahweh will give grace and glory; 1 he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity. 1
Proverbs 3:4Then you will find favor and a good reputation 1 in the sight of God and man. 1
Proverbs 12:2Yahweh gives favor to a good man, 1 but he condemns a man who makes evil plans. 1
Luke 1:30The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Romans 4:4Now for him who works, what he is paid is not counted as a gift, but as what is owed.
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 →