Genesis 6:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.””
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“So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 6:3 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:17And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
- Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
- Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Isaiah 5:4What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
- Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Jeremiah 11:7For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
- Jeremiah 11:11Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
- John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
- Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:19Do not extinguish the Spirit.
- 1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Jude 1:14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
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