Genesis 6:8

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

In Context

7Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue made them.

9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:19Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.

Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is the sunne and shielde vnto vs: the Lord will giue grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.

Proverbs 3:4So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstanding in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 12:2A good man getteth fauour of the Lord: but the man of wicked immaginations will hee condemne.

Luke 1:30Then the Angel saide vnto her, Feare not, Marie: for thou hast found fauour with God.

Romans 4:4Nowe to him that worketh, the wages is not counted by fauour, but by dette:

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 →

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