Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the LORD’s eyes.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:19See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Proverbs 3:4So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from the LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
Luke 1:30The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Romans 4:4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something 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 →