Favour

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

See 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.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand. — read the full passage →

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Let 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.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

“Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. — read the full passage →

About Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of Yahweh’s blessing, Possess the west and the south.”

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

And 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.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. — read the full passage →

Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her. — read the full passage →

Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”

When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, — read the full passage →

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,