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Genesis 6:8–9

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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
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From verse 8

  1. Genesis 19:19Rank 1 from verse 8
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    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:

  2. Hebrews 4:16Rank 2 from verse 8
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    16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

  3. Luke 1:30Rank 3 from verse 8
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    30And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

  4. Psalms 145:20Rank 4 from verse 8
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    20The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

  5. Psalms 84:11Rank 5 from verse 8
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    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.

  6. 1 Corinthians 15:10Rank 6 from verse 8
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    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  7. Acts 7:46Rank 7 from verse 8
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    46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

  8. Exodus 33:12–17Rank 8 from verse 8
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    12¶ And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

    13Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

    14And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

    15And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

    16For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

    17And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

  9. Proverbs 3:4Rank 9 from verse 8
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    4So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  10. Titus 2:11Rank 10 from verse 8
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    11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

  11. Proverbs 12:2Rank 11 from verse 8
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    2A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

  12. Romans 4:4Rank 12 from verse 8
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    4Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

  13. 2 Peter 2:5Rank 13 from verse 8
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    5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

  14. Proverbs 8:35Rank 14 from verse 8
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    35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

  15. Jeremiah 31:2Rank 15 from verse 8
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    2Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

  16. 2 Timothy 1:18Rank 16 from verse 8
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    18The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

  17. Galatians 1:15Rank 17 from verse 8
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    15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

  18. Romans 11:6Rank 18 from verse 8
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    6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

  19. Titus 3:7Rank 19 from verse 8
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    7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

From verse 9

  1. Hebrews 11:7Rank 1 from verse 9
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    7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

  2. Luke 1:6Rank 2 from verse 9
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    6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

  3. Galatians 3:11Rank 3 from verse 9
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    11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

  4. 2 Peter 2:5Rank 4 from verse 9
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    5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

  5. Genesis 5:24Rank 5 from verse 9
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    24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

  6. Genesis 7:1Rank 6 from verse 9
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    1AND the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

  7. Ezekiel 14:14Rank 7 from verse 9
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    14Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

  8. Genesis 17:1Rank 8 from verse 9
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    1AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

  9. Genesis 5:22Rank 9 from verse 9
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    22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  10. Job 1:1Rank 10 from verse 9
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    1THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

  11. Genesis 2:4Rank 11 from verse 9
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    4¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

  12. 1 Peter 2:5Rank 12 from verse 9
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    5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

  13. Ecclesiastes 7:20Rank 13 from verse 9
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    20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

  14. Acts 10:22Rank 14 from verse 9
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    22And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

  15. Ezekiel 14:20Rank 15 from verse 9
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    20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

  16. Habakkuk 2:4Rank 16 from verse 9
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    4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

  17. Job 1:8Rank 17 from verse 9
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    8And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

  18. 2 Chronicles 15:17Rank 18 from verse 9
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    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

  19. Genesis 48:15Rank 19 from verse 9
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    15¶ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

  20. Luke 2:25Rank 20 from verse 9
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    25And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

  21. Philippians 3:9–15Rank 21 from verse 9
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    9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

    10That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

    11If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

    12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

    13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

    14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

    15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

  22. Proverbs 4:18Rank 22 from verse 9
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    18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

  23. Psalms 37:37Rank 23 from verse 9
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    37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

  24. Romans 1:17Rank 24 from verse 9
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    17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

  25. 1 Kings 3:6Rank 25 from verse 9
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    6And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  26. Job 12:4Rank 26 from verse 9
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    4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

  27. Luke 23:50Rank 27 from verse 9
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    50¶ And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counseller; and he was a good man, and a just:

  28. 2 Chronicles 25:2Rank 28 from verse 9
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    2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

  29. Genesis 10:1Rank 29 from verse 9
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    1NOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

  30. Genesis 5:1Rank 30 from verse 9
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    1THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

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Genesis 6:8

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

grace

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Sense 1: Favor, acceptance, goodwill, kindness, or mercy. Sense 2: A favor, gift, benefit, or help freely bestowed, especially God's favor and enabling help; in salvation, explicitly contrasted with works and debt. Sense 3: Pleasing quality, beauty, attractiveness, or elegance, including gracious speech. Sense 4: Thankfulness or gratitude.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

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Genesis 6:9

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generations

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Plural form of generation (offspring, a family line, people of one age, or the period of a lifetime).

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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perfect

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Complete, whole, sound, mature, upright, fully fitted, finished, exact, or lacking nothing required for the person, work, knowledge, state, purpose, or standard in view; to perfect is to bring to that intended completion or maturity.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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6:5¶ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6:6And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

6:7And 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.

6:8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

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6:9¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

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6:10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

6:11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

6:12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

6:13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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