Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, “My life-giving Spirit will not remain in these people forever, because they are only mortal. The time they have left will be 120 years.”
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2and the sons of God saw that these women were beautiful, and they took whichever ones they wanted.
Cross References
Numbers 11:17I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit you have and give it to them. They will take some of the responsibility for the people so you won't have to bear it alone.
Psalms 78:39He remembered their mortality—that they were like a puff of wind that would not return.
Isaiah 5:4What more could I have done for my vineyard than I've already done? When I looked for sweet grapes, why did it only produce sour ones?
Jeremiah 11:7From the time I led your forefathers out of Egypt until now, I seriously warned them time and again, saying, “Do what I tell you!”
John 3:6“What's born of the body is body, and what's born of the Spirit is Spirit.
Romans 8:1So there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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 →