Genesis 6:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be an hundred and twenty years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and strive with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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.

Common English Bible

³ The LORD said, “My breath will not remain in humans forever, because they are flesh. They will live one hundred twenty years.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And God said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

Genesis 6:3 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:30

Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

Psalm 78:39

And he remembered that they were but flesh; A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Acts 7:51

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Numbers 11:17

And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Quench not the Spirit;

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

Jeremiah 11:7

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.