Genesis 6:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ Then Adonai said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. So their days will be 120 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh; and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:3 Cross References

Genesis 6:2

then the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good and they took for themselves wives, any they chose.

Nehemiah 9:30

You bore with them for many years and admonished them by Your Ruach through the hand of Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 78:39

For He remembered that they are but flesh, a passing breath that never returns.

Psalm 90:10

The span of our years is seventy —or with strength, eighty— yet at best they are trouble and sorrow. For they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done? Why then, when I expected it to yield good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would grow weak before Me, the breath of those whom I made.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled, and grieved His Ruach ha-Kodesh. So He turned to become their enemy. He Himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore thus says Adonai. “I will soon bring a disaster on them that they will not be able to escape. They will cry out to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

For I earnestly forewarned your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt until this day, forewarning early and often, saying ‘Listen to My voice!’

Numbers 11:17

Then I will come down and speak with you there, and, I will take some of the Ruach that is on you and will place it on them. They will carry with you the burden of the people, so you will not be carrying it alone.”

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Acts 7:51

“O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not quench the Spirit,