But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
Moses said to the Lord, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ 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 also found favor in my sight.’ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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