Genesis 6:3

The Lord said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred 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

2that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:17I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh,a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

Isaiah 5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield 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 born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to 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 →

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