But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
Parallel translations
- KJV But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
- BSB Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
- NKJV But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
- NASB But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
- NLT But Noah found favor with the Lord.
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- Redemption"Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."
Cross-references · 19
- Heb 4:16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
- Gen 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.
- Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Luke 1:30The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
- Ps 145:20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
- Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- Prov 3:4So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- Exod 33:12–17Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people:’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
- Acts 7:46who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
- Prov 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
- Rom 4:4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
- 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- Prov 8:35For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
- Jer 31:2Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
- Gal 1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
- Rom 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
- 2 Tim 1:18(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
- Titus 3:7that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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