Genesis 6:3

And the LORd sayd: My spirite shall not allwaye stryve withe man for they are flesh. Nevertheles I wyll geue them yet space and hundred and.xx. yeres

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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

2the sonnes of God sawe the doughters of men that they were fayre and toke vnto them wyves which they best liked amoge the all.

4There were tirantes in the world in thos dayes. For after that the children of God had gone in vnto the doughters of men and had begotten them childern the same childern were the mightiest of the world and men of renowne

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Cross References

John 3:6That which is boren of the flesshe is flesshe: and that which is boren of the sprete is sprete.

Romans 8:1Ther is then no damnacion to them which are in Christ Iesu which walke not after ye flesshe: but after ye sprete.

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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