Genesis 6:8

Read in context

Genesis 6:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

8 Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Genesis 6:8

Read the commentary on Genesis 6

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 19:19

Your 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.

Exodus 33:12

Then 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.’

Exodus 33:13

Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

Exodus 33:14

And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:15

“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.

Exodus 33:16

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Exodus 33:17

So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

Psalms 84:11

For 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.

Psalms 145:20

The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

Proverbs 3:4

Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.

Proverbs 12:2

The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

Jeremiah 31:2

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

Luke 1:30

So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Acts 7:46

who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Romans 4:4

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

Romans 11:6

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But 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.

Galatians 1:15

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

2 Timothy 1:18

May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.

Titus 2:11

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

Hebrews 4:16

Let 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.

2 Peter 2:5

if 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;