Genesis 6:3

But the Lord said: ‘My spirit will not abide in people forever, because they are flesh; therefore they will live for only a hundred and twenty years.’

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In The King James Version

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

In Context

2some of the heavenly beings saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful; and they took them as wives, whoever they chose.

4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and later too) when the heavenly beings lay with the human daughters who had their children. These were the mighty heroes of old, men of renown.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:39So he remembered that they were but flesh, breath that passes and does not return.

John 3:6All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Romans 8:1There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with 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 →

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