Genesis 6:8

In contrast to the coming judgment, Noah finds favor (grace) in God's eyes. This is the first mention of grace in the Bible.

Cross-references · 19

• Heb 4:16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
• Gen 19:19Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Luke 1:30So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
• Ps 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
• Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
• Prov 3:4Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
• Exod 33:12–17Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
• Acts 7:46who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
• Prov 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
• Rom 4:4Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.
• 2 Pet 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
• Prov 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
• Jer 31:2This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
• Gal 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
• Rom 11:6And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.
• 2 Tim 1:18May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.
• Titus 3:7so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

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