Genesis 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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Genesis 19:19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:4So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 12:2A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Luke 1:30And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
Romans 4:4Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but 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 →