'Favor' in the Bible

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

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

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

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

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.

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?"

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

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