Genesis 6:3
And LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
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Numbers 11:17And I will come down and talk with thee there. And I will take from the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou not bear it thyself alone.
Psalms 78:39And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and comes not again.
Isaiah 5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?
Jeremiah 11:7For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
John 3:6That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:1Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:2-3
Depravity of the World. ( b. c. 2469.) 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. For the glory of God's justice, and for warning to a wicked world, before the history of the ruin of the old world, we have a full account of its degeneracy, its apostasy from God and rebellion against him. The destroying of it was an act, not of an… Read the whole commentary →